Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
Saved by alex and
Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes
Freedom isn’t a clever plan to be let off the hook. It’s a deliberate path to being on the hook.
Embracing externalities
Eisenhower who defined freedom as the opportunity for self-discipline. In fact, freedom and power and success require self-discipline.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
freedom is the opportunity for self-discipline.
Ryan Holiday • Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.