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🦉 Wisdom
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus equates true freedom with self-discipline and self-mastery.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“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
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“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
