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• When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

  David J. Lieberman

  Exercise, Emotional, Self

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Selfishness

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

  Arthur Middleton

  Needs, Christ, Slave

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• Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

  Louis Sullivan

  Lying, Responsibility, Proud

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• Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, People, Enjoy

  President Ahmadinejad Delivers Remarks at Columbia University, www.washingtonpost.com. September 24, 2007.

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• When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

  Mark Boyle

  Needs, Achieve, Minimum

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.

  Mark Boyle

  Letting Go, Thinking, House

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

  Joseph Stalin

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Brother, Children, Responsibility

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• Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Freedom, Real, Names

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Essence, Realizing

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.6, Bantam

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• I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.

  John S. Hall

  Lying, Feels

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• Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

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• The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

  Vincent Nichols

  Lasting Happiness, Profound, Gains

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• For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.

  Lynn Hill

  Mean, Climbing, Expectations

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• Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Freedom, Criticism, Helping

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• The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Freedom, Talking

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• I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer.

  Liu Xia

  Independent, Long, Intellectual

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• This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Tyrants, Democracy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.31, Oxford University Press

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• Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humility, World, Holiness

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• True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

  Steve Hagen

  Lying, Choices, Littles

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

  Tom Wicker

  Responsibility, America, Needs

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• The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Good Life, Unfinished Business, Events

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• The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

  Matt Damon

  Giving, Magazines, Want

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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