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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
– Jeffrey T Borenstein

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  1. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour. – John Green
  2. It’s fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind – David Allen
  3. Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. – Douglas Adams
  4. A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story – Enrique de Hriz
  5. In this instant of danger they realized they were each other’s reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. – Anas Nin
  6. Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  7. The instant is not in time — time is in the instant. – John Barbour
  8. This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. – JeanPaul Sartre
  9. Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. – David Borenstein
  10. I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think. – Chris Colfer
  11. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
  12. My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
  13. What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity? – Karen Essex
  14. Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
  15. Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
  16. I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales
  17. Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
  18. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
  20. Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
  21. Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
  22. If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
  23. True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you. – John Bruna
  24. Just because we have birds inside is, we don’t have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers – Dean Young
  25. Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
  26. There’s no place for someone who can’t decide between being one or the other. – Sui Ishida
  27. The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do. – Israelmore Ayivor
  28. The decide word is so powerful. It’s amazing what you can do once you decide to do it. – Lorii Myers
  29. I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. – Emma Waston
  30. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. – HL Hunt
  31. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head. – Jay Asher
  32. Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible. – Brian Tracy
  33. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It’s the same way you decide to STAY happily married! – Ngina Otiende
  34. So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – JRR Tolkien
  35. Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
  36. Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom. – DeBorrah K Ogans
  37. Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life. – Debasish Mridha
  39. True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin. – Billy Graham
  40. Crime must be brought under control… Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all. – Nelson Mandela

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