Is freedom A Choice? 6 Powerful Quotes To Awaken You.

We spend a lot of time in our lives wishing that we were somewhere other than where we are. We want to be better looking, healthier, have more time and often, to have more money. But what if we could rethink our ideas around freedom? What if we could see freedom as a choice in our lives and thereby create personal fulfilment?

1) Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.- Viktor E. Frankl

You have the freedom to choose how you respond to life. Whenever situations and circumstances arise in our personal world, we have an opportunity to choose how we react. There is ‘space’, and within that space is your personal power. We have the freedom of choice, to see things a different way, or to see all experiences as opportunities to grow.

2) Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do. – Byron Katie

If we choose this perspective, to see experiences as a gift, then we have set ourselves free. This is truly an empowering choice to make in your life, because you are once and for all taking responsibility for your life.

3) I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein

Taking this kind of personal responsibility for your life removes the often imagined (and sometimes enforced) pressure for you to perform or live up to someone else’s standards. You create your own limits and therefore you can decide if and when you challenge or change them.

4) The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. – Thornton Wilder

It may seem confronting to step up like this and claim your life, but to convince yourself that there is another person better for the job, is nothing short of a tragedy. You have the power to define who you want to be, and you alone can be the one who makes the big decisions on where you spend your time, your money and your spirit.

5) 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

True freedom lies in following your heart, pursuing your goals, and doing no harm along the way. This is a possibility for you in your life, right here and now.

6) Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Set yourself free. Choose to be the master of your own destiny and take control of your life today!