#wil

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#free-will #hope #humor #writing #freedom

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#freedom #jesus #scripture #the-truth-will-set-you-free #truth

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. ↗

— Criss Jami

#development #faith #fear #free #freedom

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom

Peace adores above everything free discussion and expression without intimidation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #peace #freedom

True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freewill #power #freedom

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning. ↗

— Stephen King

#fate #free-will #freedom #freedom

We will win, or we will die, but our freedom will not be stolen! ↗

— M.R. Merrick

#freedom

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#pioneers #religious-freedom #sacrifice #willie-handcart #zion

Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#bikers #enjoy-freedom #enjoy-life #free #free-will