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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities.… — Orison Swett Marden
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free… — Alexander Pope
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter. — Charles Darwin
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is… — Joseph Story
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free… — Rajneesh
That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all… — Rajneesh
Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his… — Ayn Rand
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a… — Martin Luther
Life is a compromise between fate and free will. — Elbert Hubbard
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do. — Carl Jung
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. — William James
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in… — George MacDonald
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to… — Rajneesh
All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you,… — Rajneesh
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in… — Carlos Barrios
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us… — George Sand
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?… — Charles Lamb
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away… — Rajneesh
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents… — Mahatma Gandhi
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction… — Julia Hill

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