"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

Freedom, Practice, Responsibility, Life

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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

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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

Freedom, When, Independence, Write

"The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, God, Knowledge, Wealth

"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

Freedom, Preaching, God, Light

"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

Freedom, Name

"Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Freedom, Misery, Obstacle, Service

"Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Freedom, Reality, Creation, Life

"Freedom for freedoms sake."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Freedom, Autonomy, Philosophy, Liberty

"According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Freedom, God, World, Play

"The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, Choice, Creation, Power

Explore more quotes by William Faulkner

"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."

Freedom

"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

Wisdom

"You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."

Love

"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."

Society

"Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing."

Writing

"Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness."

Existence

"People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire."

Compassion

"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."

Society

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

Language

"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them."

Integrity