It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The greatest joy in life comes from the freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it. The freedom to leave a place and say goodbye, and pick up and move somewhere else, and start over and create a new life. To be able to choose to move closer to home or further away, depending on what it is that makes us happy. There's nothing like that feeling of freedom when you're in charge of your own destiny.

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