“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, he said that Muhammad Ali gave him hope that the walls would some day come tumbling down.”— Dave Zirin, thenation.com
“It really is crazy that the word “feminist” can have negative connotations in 2014. It upsets me that the younger generation of women think it’s a dirty word, and associate it with a kind of militantism or a sense of female superiority. It’s not. It just means liberation, and equality.”— Natalie Dormer, thedailybeast.com
“Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked thei…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”— John Green, amazon.com
“For when you cling, what you offer the other is not love but a chain by which both you and your beloved are bound. Love can only exist in freedom. The true lover seeks the good of his beloved which requires especially the liberation of the beloved from the lover.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com
“Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.”— Roxane Gay, freedom
“This is the use of memory: For liberation—not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“I thought about the notebooks I filled up in high school, the ones that I’m still too scared to open up and revisit, not because I think my bad writing will make me cringe, but because I’m afraid my bad writing will make me yearn to write like that again—and I don’t mean writing poems that compare m…”— Jenny Zhang, rookiemag.com
“Each one of us is in hundreds of boxes, like watercolors, splish-splashing elements of ourselves over into the others, and in my view, when colors bleed into each other, we get the most beautiful rainbows.”— iO Tillett Wright, huffingtonpost.com
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Freedom does not lie in discovering or being able to determine who we are, but in rebelling against those ways in which we are already defined, categorized, and classified.”— John Rajchman, amazon.com