#dom

When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently, we are alone with our own thoughts and one other voice. We can take our time, consider, evaluate, and digest what we read—with no commercial interruptions, no emotional music or special effects manipulation. And in spite of the advances in electronic information exchange, the book is still the most important medium for presenting ideas of substance and value, still the only real home of literature. ↗

— Andrew Clements

#books #clements #freedom #reading #things-not-seen

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. ↗

— James Frey

#freedom

To die hating them, that was freedom. ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom #hate #freedom

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#good-and-evil #freedom

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#freedom

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#freedom #space #freedom

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom #leaving #freedom

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#inspirational #president #freedom

Liberties aren't given, they are taken. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#freedom

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#freedom #zen #freedom