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I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child. Now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefintely.

—Mary Pickford

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

—Albert Einstein

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I want to go
all over the world
and start living free

—Gillian Welch

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Love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours. If they don't, they never were.

—Richard Bach

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Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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I asked God if it was okay
to be melodramatic
and she said yes

—Kaylin Haught

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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

―Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

―Hans Christian Andersen

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Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

—Frank Tyger

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Freedom’s just another word
for nothin' left to lose

—Kris Kristofferson

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The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage.

—Carrie Jones

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She who is brave is free.

—Seneca

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A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips her wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky

—Maya Angelou

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

—Toni Morrison

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I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

—Harvey Milk

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And you and me
are free to be
you and me

—Marlo Thomas & Friends

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I wanna make you feel free.

—Joni Mitchell

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

―Anaïs Nin

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You can make
what you want,
do what you wish.

―Joyce Sutphen

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I know you,
you know me.
One thing I can tell you
is you got to be free.

—Beatles

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Nobody’s free
until everybody’s free.

—Fannie Lou Hamer

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Poem: God Says Yes to Me

Poem: Origami

Poem: Freedom

Poem: It Is Enough to Enter

Poem: The Journey

Poem: Travel

How deep is your love?

Freedom poems

Found poem

Found poetry

Use your nondominant hand

Erasure poetry

Poetry Everywhere

Haibun

Found object

Dictionary stories

Wreck This Journal

Burn After Writing

The Writer’s Block

3 A.M. Epiphany

Writing Down the Bones

Not quite what I was planning: Six-word memoirs

True Perception

Place Your Thoughts Here

Inner Advisor in a peaceful place

The words we long to hear

Bob Ross

Shel Silverstein

Anne Waldman

Laurie Anderson

Georgia O’Keeffe

Jack Kerouac

Jim Henson

Joni Mitchell

Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman

Eddie Van Halen

Ornette Coleman

ee cummings

Beck

Björk

Punk

Henry Miller Memorial Library

Men fear me, society shames me, and I love my life

Bongo’s dream house

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom

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