Ru Freeman Quotes

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Never give up the ganja.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Your best posture is your next posture.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.