“Steal a day from the ordinary, ride into nature’s embrace, and let the winds whisper something wonderful your way.”
Source: Curious Croatia: Places Through My Lenses
“There is a connection between freedom and self-confidence: When you are kept from expressing your deepest needs and wishes, you lose trust in their validity and in your own judgement. You survive by finding out the rules and following them, thus hiding what you really want. You make it your purpose in life to please others rather than to affirm yourself.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“When you sit with the discomfort, you realise it's not the discomfort, it's a pathway to freedom.”
“Non-conformity is an illness. We’re possible sources of contagion.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“My freedom therefore requires that I can ask myself what I *should* do with my time. Even when I am utterly absorbed in what I do, what I say, and what I love, the possibility of this question must be alive in me. Being engaged in my activities, I must run the risk of being bored--otherwise my engagement would be a matter of compulsive necessity. Being devoted to what I love, I must run the risk of losing it or giving it up--otherwise there would be nothing at stake in maintaining and actively relating to what I love. Most fundamentally, I must live in relation to my irrevocable death--otherwise I would believe that my time is infinite and there would be no urgency in dedicating my life to anything.
The condition of our freedom, then, is that we understand ourselves as finite. Only in light of the apprehension that we will die--that our lifetime is indefinite but finite--can we ask ourselves what we ought to do with our lives and put ourselves at stake in our activities. This is why all religious visions of eternity, as we shall see, ultimately are visions of *unfreedom.*”
Source: This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“When the ego abdicates its freedom, when it becomes a passive spectator of its own existence, the times are ripe for the philosophies of History”
Source: The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis
“We jumped out of the car and began to run. A cottage, to hide in, a boat, I don’t know what we thought. He said the passports were foolproof, and we had so little time to plan. Maybe he had a plan, a map of some kind in his head. As for me, I was only running: away, away.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I want to leave as soon as I can. I think I was born with a suitcase.”
“Effectiveness without autonomy is not effective, dependency-induced compliance is no social contract, a hive with no exit can never be a home, experience without sanctuary is but a shadow, a life that requires hiding is no life, touch without feel reveals no truth, and freedom from uncertainty is no freedom.”
Source: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
“They could kill him, but they’d never own him again.”
Source: The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West