#do

When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#freedom #habit #life #freedom

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#hope #freedom

Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!” (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) “I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwellingplace. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity— that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#sacrifice #freedom

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring

So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity!/ I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/ No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down!/ ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#freedom #inspirational #freedom

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity ↗

— Paul Tillich

#freedom #freedom

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#congressman #cuba #down #everything #had

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#inspirational #john-stuart-mill #truth #freedom