People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
Interpretation
Solitude can lead to a sense of freedom and autonomy over one's time.
This quote suggests that being alone can provide an individual with a unique sense of freedom, as solitude allows for greater personal autonomy and control over how one chooses to spend their time. In a world often filled with distractions and obligations, solitude can offer a valuable opportunity for self-reflection and independence, enabling one to pursue personal interests and passions without external pressures or interruptions.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-discovery and independence.
People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice β¦ slave of religious fanaticism β¦ slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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