#emo

...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it. ↗

— Donald Miller

#forgiveness #pain #remorse #forgiveness

If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt. ↗

— Tana French

#forgiveness

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play. ↗

— Erica Goros

#emotions #humor-inspirational #inspiration #intellect #self-help

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#present #story #storytelling #change

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. ↗

— Malcolm X

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#democracy #freedom #liberation #love #marxism

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based. ↗

— Vandana Shiva

#freedom

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#freedom #law #liberty #respect #right

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#forgetting-the-past #inspirational #memory #inspirational

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help. ↗

— Joel S. Manuel

#help #inspirational #life #science #suffering