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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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.
Rules give you freedom from your desires.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.” Constraints are unpleasant if they’re imposed upon us from above—by fiat, by force, by threat of starvation. But they take on a completely different character if we deliberately choose to impose them upon ourselves. Once again, we’re back to the simple definition of optionality: the right, but not
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Whatever choice you make, so long as you make it in the spirit of facing the consequences, the result will be freedom in the only sense that finite humans ever get to enjoy it. Not freedom from limitation, which is something we unfortunately never get to experience, but freedom in limitation. Freedom to examine the trade-offs – because there will
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