Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gai…

Rollo May
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. ✨ Rollo May (2009). Man's Search for Himself, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company
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