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Quotes about freedom and living on your own terms. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest freedom quotes ever written — from Lao Tzu, Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

— Lao Tzu

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A work of art is a scream of freedom.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.

Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

— Virginia Woolf

He who is brave is free.

— Seneca

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

There is always something to look forward to on the weekend: rest, family, and freedom.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison.

— Bertrand Russell

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

— Albert Camus

The garden of the world has no limits save in the mind.

— Rumi

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

— Walt Whitman

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

— Nelson Mandela

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

There is no denying the wild horse in us.

— Virginia Woolf

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

All good things are wild and free.

— Henry David Thoreau

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

— Rumi

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root.

— William Wordsworth

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

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