Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Freedom

Freedom – she understood now – was something so long lost among humans that they had forgotten what it felt like. Bend to your labours! Grasp those coins! Keep the doors locked and fires raging to empty the shadows behind you! Make your brothers and sisters kneel before you, to serve your pleasures. Are you free? You don’t remember the truth of what once was – of what you all so willingly surrendered.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting freedom, but it may feel empty once you’ve attained it.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Freedom! That belabored word! It is a big, empty word, and yet, when some experience reminds us what freedom is, how clear and particular its meaning becomes, how unspeakably sweet, and full!

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free

When you lose, you really feel a sense of self … You actually feel that you are being taken apart, rather than just your pieces.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

When you think that you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more.

"#305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~"