The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline… — David Foster Wallace

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty, unsexy ways, every day.

Other tags relating to this quote
Medium
Time
Provenance
Current citation
Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Original citation
Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.