Ursula K. Le Guin : Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake...

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be the hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

─ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan