It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon
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It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon
- We have so little control over our lives. The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it.
from Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
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- On the train ride I repeated this line to myself, your allocation of effort determines your reality . Mastery requires effort sustained over time. The ability to make practice sacred through repetition. It’s the gardener, philosopher, writer, financier, artist, entrepreneur. Our roads, architecture, movies, books, music, everything beautiful in thi... See more
from highly concentrated effort by Nix đź•Š
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- “Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
Bradley McDevitt added
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
from This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
- "Become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion." - Camus
from adriennemareebrown by Twitter
Robin Harford added
Jefferson’s uncomfortable dictum “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” applies outside the fields of politics as well; it means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.
from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Abhilash Rao added
You can’t talk someone into their liberation. Telling someone to just get free is like telling someone to stop grinding their teeth in the night. It is not kindness. Freedom requires patience with ourselves, as it takes time to feel at peace if all you’ve ever known is insecurity. It’s the process of your soul learning to trust again—trust that it
... See morefrom This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley