"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose."

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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

Pat Conroy, American Writer

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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Freedom, Control, Truth, Wisdom

"If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Freedom for freedoms sake."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Freedom, Autonomy, Philosophy, Liberty

"As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Freedom, Fun, Judgment, Behavior

"So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Freedom, Birds, Envy, Potential

"When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Freedom, Imprisonment, Conformity, Imagination

"Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Freedom, Liberation, Mind, Soul, Body

"You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Freedom, Empowerment, Forgiveness, Strength, LettingGo

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"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."

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"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."

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"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"

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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

"If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"Freedom for freedoms sake."

"As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time."

"So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them."

"When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities."

"Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body."

"You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong."

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"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."

"But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'."

"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."

"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."

"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"

"The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence."