Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness 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
1806-1873

Without freedom, there can be no love,”

We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves. That is what has happened to our freedom.

Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Freedom is not a thing that we have, but a thing that we do.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.