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

“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

“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

“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

“Now I'm 25 years old and can predict with Certainty that after my Death, People will be slandering about me, who weren't even able to look me into the Eyes without my Permission during my Lifetime. May you freeze through Disgust when you look into the Mirror.”
― Sino Melo

“They know, not because they "know," but simply because we have allowed them to know.”
― Sov8840

“They know, not because they "know," but simply because we have allowed them to see a glimpse.”
― Sov8840

“They see, not because they "see," but simply because we have allowed them to see a glimpse.”
― Sov8840

“They’re all waiting for permission. From who? Men? The Church? Their mothers? The version of themselves when they were teens?”
― Neda Aria, Us, Women

“You are allowed to rest before you're exhausted. You are allowed to say no without a spreadsheet of justification. You are allowed to matter, even when you’re not productive.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor

“Pick up the crystal. Light the candle. Kneel in the pew. Lie on the ground. Chant the mantra. Read the book. Follow the teacher. Do whatever helps you say yes to yourself. They are all permission slips to your higher self.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“If you’re a woman who feels called but is still waiting for permission—let the Word of Truth and the Spirit of Truth lead you. Read the Scriptures for yourself. Listen to God’s voice. And then obey God, not man. If God is calling you, that is your permission. Don’t let someone else’s discomfort dilute your fire or keep you from your assignment.”
― kathleen johnson, Healed to Heal