35 Quotes About Flying Free Like a Bird

Simplifying your life and living minimally is one of the key ways to living free. These quotes about flying free like a bird will remind you that there is more to life than just the material earthly things we identify with.

“A friend is like an eagle; you don’t find them flying in flocks.”

“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”

“All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.”

“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”

“I believe in going with the flow. I don’t believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow.”

“I fly through memory to find a newborn love.”

“I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind.”

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

“Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!”

“It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.”

“It is just my imagination that flies, While she is wrapped up in her bedsheets like a nest.”

“Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.”

“Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don’t have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.”

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

“Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.”

“Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I’m flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I’m about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“That’s the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.”

“The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“The secret of flight is this — you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

“The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.”

“The whole wide ether is the eagle’s way: The whole earth is a brave man’s fatherland.”

“There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor’s shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.”

“There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It will fly.”

“There’s so much world to see, what’s stopping you from flying free?”

“To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it’s different from what everybody expects me to do. I’m flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.”

“We’re flying free like birds in the sky, because we’re ALIVE.”

“You’ve got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.”

It can seem like we live in an unfree world. However, each of us have control and freedoms in our own thoughts and actions.