Permission Quotes

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?

Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.

We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid and you're told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When you're a teenager and your parents tell you no, you're old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But you're smarter and you're sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know what's best.

But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway.

Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know whats best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“Stand up for yourself.
Never give any one permission to abuse you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.”
― Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.”
― Janet Jackson, True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“Don't touch me without my permission. Mr. Little Boy”
― Peach-Pit, Shugo Chara!, Vol. 1: Who Do You Want to Be?

“Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Things We Do for Love

“The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.”
― Alain de Botton

“.. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted.”
― Charlaine Harris, A Bone to Pick

“I hate the word beautiful. Hate it. The word beautiful somehow gives the world permission to make wrongful assumptions about me, like that I don't have a brain. Beautiful somehow gives men permission to say the phrase as a secret password in my direction, and I should therefore fall at their feet. Beautiful makes people believe they can say anything they want about or to me and that I shouldn't be angry.
Nothing in the universe could be more wrong.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"

"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.”
― Maggie Osborne, Brides of Prairie Gold

“I didn’t invent darkness, but in far too many ways I’ve given it permission to invent me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“... think of self-acceptance in terms of “permission.” So, for example, “accepting the need to rest” might become “giving myself permission to rest.” In whatever way you look at it, self-acceptance or permission means you honestly acknowledge reality. It also means putting down the stick that we’ve been using to beat ourselves. In this way, the pain lessens and our capacity to act is enhanced.”
― John Niland

“As a sovereign being, you do not need the permission or direction of another; these can only come from the sacred inner sanctum of your heart.”
― Kris Franken, Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity

“Of course I don’t want to remember, for that gives me permission to repeat the very same things I know I shouldn’t have done in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't be oppressor in life because most of the spirits of humans take revenge after death by God's permission.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The truth is permission.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“The deficits in our life only survive if we grant them permission to be the lie that allows them to be deficits.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You're allowed
to feel a desperate desire
to experience life again
and to follow that desire
wherever it beckons.”
― Vironika Wilde, Love and Gaslight