Freedom And Happiness Quotes

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one’s psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.