67 Free Spirit Quotes for Those Who Live Differently

If you have an opinion outside of the norm, people presume you’re argumentative. And if you're driven by happiness rather than money, people insist that you’re just work-shy, and can’t be bothered to chase the big bucks.

In fact, if you have any kind of aspirations that move you away from conventional living, people judge and call you crazy. They laugh at your ideas. And seemingly take pride in reminding you of how you should live your life.

But not everyone wants to be confined to convention. And it’s those free spirits that make the world a more beautiful place.

Why Should We Embrace Free Spirit Living?

As children, we’re taught how to behave. Our parents or caregivers teach us how to wait our turn patiently, how to hold our cutlery properly, and to eat our greens because they’ll make us big and strong.

They remind us to always say please and thank you; to never interrupt. And to stop asking silly questions.

But if we stop asking questions, how can we grow as people? How can we learn to live outside of the four walls we occupy? And explore beyond the horizon.

We aren’t robots. We aren’t meant to exist in a clock-in and clock-out world. And yet, so many of us do.

So many people forget about the dreams they had. And only worry about tomorrow’s alarm, about having a pair of matching socks to go to work in, and where to grab lunch from on a 45-minute break.

But for others, mismatching socks is all part of the fun. It’s part of the journey, like a crazy road trip with spontaneous pitstops for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s a journey to find the best sunsets, the best ice cream, and all the other things that make them smile.

Those people who are truly living. People who are daring to be different, who continue to ask questions, silly or otherwise. And who unapologetically live their lives in the least robotic manner possible.

To those who live differently, the world needs more people like you. It needs more free spirits to break away from the norm. To make their own choices, to follow their own dreams, and to get to the end, feeling that life really was well lived.

So let’s celebrate free-spirited living with these free-spirit quotes. And know that adventure is just one pair of mismatched socks away.

67 Free Spirit Quotes for Those Who Live Differently

1. “I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.” – Princess Diana
2. “I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.” – Alice Walker
3. “Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.” – Lauren Jauregui
4. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi
5. “I am a wild woman, it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.” – Nikki Rowe
6. “Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.” – Twiggy

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.” – Twiggy

7. “They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!” – Bill Watterson
8. “Your happiness doesn’t come free, but you need to be free to be happy.” – Nokwethemba Nkosi
9. “There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
10. “She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.” – Nikki Rowe
11. “I love people who are free — the ones who are all-things beautiful. They’re the ones who make this life worth living.” – Ashley Duvan
12. “We must free ourselves from this prison that restricts our personal desires by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Dee Waldeck
13. “My mother's father was from Brazil – a painter, and not a famous one – and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.”  – Claire Denis
14. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

15. “Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society… You were born to be free.” – Melanie Muller
16. “A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.” – Joseph Conrad
17. “If you try to tame her she will fly away, because pretty little spirits like her, never like to be caged.” – Nikki Rowe
18. “Bjork was so good to me. She's very independent and she doesn't suck your energy. She lets you be you. She's a free spirit so she knows how to be with a free spirit. That's the only sort of woman I could see myself staying with.” – Tricky
19. “I realize I’m a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.” – Chamique Holdsclaw
20. “Let your mind be set free from the control of others influence.” – Jeremy Limn
21. “He had a free spirit. He was so far-reaching, he's the person who likes the wind in his hair.” – Carlotta Leon Guerrero
22. “The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them.” – Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them.” – Charles Bukowski

23. “I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.” – Rick James
24. “If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.” – William Powell
25. “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!” – Joss Whedon
26. “It is the free-spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy – those individuals who dare to be themselves.” – Kevyn Aucoin
27. “To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” – Helen Keller
28. “We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.” – Geoffrey Holder
29. “Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.” – Melanie Muller
30. “Let my free spirit be my legacy.” – Lisa Allen Thompson

31. “Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.” – Rudolf Steiner
32. “May my heart be brave, my mind fierce, and my spirit free.” – Kate Forsyth
33. “This is the day I give birth to my liberation.” ― Helen Edwards
34. “I wear like lip gloss and my hair is always really natural, and I'm a really kind of natural free spirit in my everyday life who has crystals and I burn sage, and I think I find a lot of calming beauty in that stuff.” – Maria Brink
35. “I’m just a free-spirit with a wild heart and an open road ahead.” – Unknown
36. “I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.” – Future
37. “Baby, I’m not afraid, I’ve been to hell and back, I’m a free spirit, a wild child and a renegade.” – Mishi Mccoy
38. “Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.” – Jeff Greenfield

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.” – Jeff Greenfield

39. “A free spirit is just an old soul with all its karma paid… needing to prove nothing.” – Unknown
40. “Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.” – Anne Sullivan Macy
41. “Freedom is found when we let go of who we are supposed to be and embrace who we really are.” – Unknown
42. “We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.” – Sark
43. “A wild spirit is often misunderstood. Others may think I’m lost, when in truth, I’m simply roaming free.” – RH
44. “A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side – which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.” – Drew Barrymore
45. “I’m not a bird. No net will ensnare me. I’m a human being that has her own independent will.” – Charlotte Bronte
46. “Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?” – Gabrielle Roth

47. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus
48. “She was happy. She lived for herself and enjoyed her own company. They called it loneliness. She knew it was freedom.” – f.e. marie
49. “I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.” – Neon Hitch
50. “Only when we find an adequate way of accounting for the “opaque” natural dimension in our subjectivity will it be possible to conceive of an embodied form of rational free spirit.” – Unknown
51. “I want to live my life without filters. I don’t walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I’m a very free spirit.” – Demi Lovato
52. “Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place a limit to the giant’s unchained strength, or curb his swiftness in the forward race?” – William C. Bryant
53. “I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.” – Marisa Berenson
54. “Let me ensure that throughout life’s journey I do not create my own chains and shackles along the way – but to always freely express myself in all things as I should – and to become all that my true free spirit was destined to be.” ~ Eleesha

Let me ensure that throughout life’s journey I do not create my own chains and shackles along the way – but to always freely express myself in all things as I should – and to become all that my true free spirit was destined to be.” ~ Eleesha

55. “I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.” – Voltairine de Cleyre
56. “Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.” – Luke Donald
57. “I think I'm like a free spirit.” – Bai Ling
58. “I am living breathing freedom.” – Hiroko Sakai
59. “We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.” – Beth Ditto
60. “My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, ‘No, it's like this.'” – Action Bronson
61. “I am truly free to live life as I choose, not how others perceive I should. For it is only within such freedom of expression that I am able to find true solace, and emerge not just as I should – but as I am.” ~ Eleesha
62. “The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.” – Garth Brooks

63. “I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.” – Alice Walker
64. “I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.” – Sasha Lane
65. “My mother was a huge influence on me – she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.” – Christian Louboutin
66. “I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.” – Cheryl Strayed
67. “Would you rather be right or free?” – Byron Katie

Final Thoughts on Free Spirits Who Live Differently

These free spirit quotes have shown just how diverse and interesting the world can be. They remind us that living differently can open doors to real happiness. And that being a free spirit should be celebrated, rather than judged or sneered at.

Living differently may come with its own set of challenges, but that doesn’t mean it should be avoided. It takes real courage to break away from the norm and allow yourself to grow in ways you never dreamed possible.

So go be different. Be free. And above all else, be happy.

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