Top 347 Freeing Quotes & Sayings

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

For me, to be on television and not be afraid of making a mistake is freeing.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

I've worked with PETA on freeing elephants from the circus.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

Being naked in water - there's nothing better. It's primal and freeing.

Accepting fear head-on is freeing.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

Just playing someone who's not concerned with people's comfort levels is so freeing.

As a model, it's been really freeing to embrace my individuality and celebrate what makes us all different.

There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Madness is surprisingly freeing.

It's freeing to be that person who people turn around to look at, wondering who could have a laugh that loud.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.