What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"

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My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes

Scott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen

“The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities.”

James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (November 28, 2019) | James Clear

The ultimate freedom isn't freedom from structure but freedom within structure - the capacity to embody forms that serve life while remaining unbound by them. It's the freedom to predict and plan while staying open to being surprised, to know while remaining curious, to be someone while remembering the vastness from which that someone emerges.

Daniel Thorson • Predictive Processing and The Sacred

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Beyond our desire for flexibility and options, freedom means we’re able to live a life unbound from the constraints and pressure produced by our distorted fears. Freedom means we’re not held hostage by our worries to look a certain way to ourselves and others. We’re no longer bullied by our inner critic.

Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle

as long as our freedom is dependent upon stuff we can’t really control, then it’s not really freedom, is it?