What’s more important to you? Freedom is the ability to set your own schedule and do what you want.
Responsibility is being accountable for your actions.
Freedom without responsibility might be tempting, but over time it lacks substance.
Responsibility without freedom is uninspiring and stressful.
The surest way to earn freedom is to take on more responsibility.
Freedom and responsibly are not granted to you, they are earned, they are taken.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.