Live Free Quotes

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Place your truth on my hips. Don’t tell me who you are. Show me with your sincerity, let me see the helplessness in your eyes, wrap your irreverence around me. I’ve been afraid. My freedom has been mistaken for frivolousness, my sexuality for carelessness. Double standards imposed with hypocritical fingers and incurious hearts. I’ve relinquished myself to the wrong ideologies. I’m tired of having to cover my vulnerability to protect others from feeling theirs.

Expose me, penetrate me with broad philosophies, let us collide recklessly with freedom. Steal my wild heart, but do not ask me to live under an umbrella when I like being soaked by the rain.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my condolences for you have never really lived.”
― Rock Cowles

“Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.”
― Mahyar Mottahed

“What matters is that you live for something you believe in and not live in fear for something you do not.”
― Lauren Lee Merewether, The Curse of Beauty

“Humans make boxes, put themselves into those boxes, then pull other people in along with them. Everything I do and everything that I am, are the results of climbing out of their boxes and then not allowing myself to be pulled into new ones. Because once you are freed from one, there is always another, and yet another, box that some human will try to pull you into. Especially in the society which I live: a giant box filled with a hundred million tiny boxes, all trying to trap you inside them. And some will tell you that God is in their box with them! Bloody hell of a lie. God cannot be found inside of their cubicles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“How to be Authentic -
Might seem like a trivial notion, but in a Society that encourages you to be just another copy, is a valid one to consider. And the Answer is so simple: Stop ”
― Affinity Soul

“let me loose
paint my nails, lips
my hair free
and blouse silk
blow in the wind
let my soul speak
weary and old;
of intolerant chaos
bigot, lies and deceit
let hate subside
in loose paintings
of what i try to make bright
under flickering lights”
― nii norton nortey

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― Affinity Soul

“Stop shrinking yourself down for people who can’t even fit themselves into the boxes they’re trying to force you into.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“True manhood lies in living amongst those who wish to witness your downfall, while true courage is found in sharing your laughter to bring them joy, despite knowing their ill intentions.”
― Giridhar Alwar, When It's Unconditional...