Quote by Virginia Hanson

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether

Summary

This quote suggests that genuine pursuit of freedom requires a willingness to embrace change and let go of familiar things. It urges us to question our true desire for freedom and emphasizes that progress often comes with letting go of what is comfortable or cherished. The idea of rebirth implies a transformational process, one in which we have to be ready to relinquish our attachment to what has been in order to move forward. True freedom, according to this quote, necessitates the willingness to let go and embrace the unknown.

Topics

Freedom

By Virginia Hanson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't h

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle, Help, Help! Another D

Rivers

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't p

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

Nature

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a prec

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Christopher Hitchens

Time Death French English Language

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Enthusiasm

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of the

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Women

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how w

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom Life

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a h

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

Amazing

And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Religion

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in r

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics Religion

When you have poison oak you love nature a little less.

When you have poison oak you love nature a little less.

Nature

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we s

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

God