Liberating Quotes

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.

Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.