it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me why - but there's no use in talking to people who have home.
They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people - for home to be wherever you lay your head.

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.

I had to ask myself and answer honestly, How much do I want to be free? And I couldn’t lose sight of my goal of freeing my family. What would freedom be without them?

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Its not until you lose everything that you can truly apreciate everything

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
That is real freedom.
That is being taught how to think.
The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the "rat race" — the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."

There’s nothing wrong with wanting freedom, but it may feel empty once you’ve attained it.