Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
Interpretation
True freedom involves taking responsibility for our choices rather than avoiding them.
This quote by Toni Morrison emphasizes the idea that genuine freedom is not the absence of responsibilities, but rather the ability to choose which responsibilities we take on. It suggests that freedom is empowered by our choices and the commitments we make, highlighting the importance of personal agency in shaping our lives.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Toni Morrison once reminded us, freedom is choosing your responsibility.'
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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