Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Freedom
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
-Jonathan Hennessey
"The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
"How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
