Browsing Quotes With Tag: freedom (31)
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No one is free who is not a master of himself.
Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Agency is the freedom to choose what consequences we are willing to live with.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best missions have very few rules; but we’re deadly serious about the ones we have.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We don’t know much about the premortal life, but we do know that the two issues were agency and obedience. That battle is still going on right now.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is born of obedience; the freedom to play the piano comes entirely from obedience to the laws of piano playing, from disciplined practicing, from sacrificing alternative activities to cultivate this talent. This is true in developing any talent, any skill, and virtually everyone accepts it as a fact. Why, then, is there resistance to the concept of obeying God, to keeping the commandments in the moral and spiritual realms?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“See, I’ve always been afraid of marriage because of, you know, ball and chain, I want my freedom, all that. But when I was thinking about that stupid girl I suddenly saw it was the opposite: that if you got married to someone you know you love, and you sort yourself out, it frees you up for other things. I know you don’t know how you feel about me, but I do know how I feel about you. I know I want to stay with you and I keep pretending otherwise, to myself and you, and we just limp on and on. It’s like we sign a new contract every few weeks or so, and I don’t want that anymore. And I know that if we got married I’d take it seriously, and I wouldn’t want to mess about.”
“And you can make a decision about it just like that, can you? In cold blood, bang bang, if I do that, then this will happen? I’m not sure that it works like that.”
“But it does, you see. Just because it’s a relationship, and it’s based on soppy stuff, it doesn’t mean you can’t make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you’ll never get anywhere. That’s where I’ve been going wrong. I’ve been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.”Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie. Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to others more often then they tell the truth. But fate does not lie.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Tell us Lin. I would like to know.”
“Well, if you press me, I’d have to say freedom.”
“The freedom to do what?” he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word.
“I don’t know. Maybe just the freedom to say no. If you’ve got that much freedom, you really don’t need any more.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, that through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!