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🏛️ Life
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
Sartre locates freedom in our creative response to circumstances beyond our control.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are and what we become through time”
“Man is condemned to be free.”
“Existence precedes essence.”
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”
— John of the Cross
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
— Hannah Arendt
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
— Epictetus
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
— Victor Frankl
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
