Freedom

Most people tend to delude themselves into thinking that freedom comes from doing what feels good or what fosters comfort and ease. The truth is that people who subordinate reason to their feelings of the moment are actually slaves of their desires and aversions. They are ill-prepared to act effectively and nobly when unexpected challenges occur. as they inevitably will.

—from A Manual for Living by Epictetus, trans. Lebell

This could have been written by a Buddhist, but Epictetus was a Greek stoic. Some would disagree with me, but I consider desires themselves to be perfectly natural and harmless. It is attachment to those desires that is the problem. It is one thing to wish that the summer heat would break, another to rail against the continuing heat and rant about the injustice of it all. Admittedly, wishing for coolness is stepping out of the moment, but once the desire arises (of itself), the thing to do is examine it and decide if it's useful. Most often, it is not, so then let the desire go. If it is useful (perhaps there is some shade not far away), then act on it.