Christian-fiction Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory…

— Geoffrey Wood

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

— Tara Brach

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”

— Epictetus

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

— William Blake

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

— William Blake

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely…

— Richard H. Thaler

“also increases my capacity to choose the desirable alternative, until eventually it becomes more difficult to choose the undesirable rather than the desirable action.…

— Anonymous

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove…

— Vernon Howard

“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people,…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

— Franz Grillparzer