#om

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. ↗

— George Carlin

#freedom-of-thought #humor #patriotism #freedom

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#caring #discipline #freedom #love #people

Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabella #freedom

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it ↗

— Roald Dahl

#freedom

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#free-speech #freedom

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ↗

— Aristotle

#freedom #freedom

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? ↗

— Jean Said Makdisi

#community #punishment #death

Theo was so pleased with her, so proud of her. In love with her, whatever love was. ↗

— Annabel Joseph

#erotic-romance #love

Here's what you need to know: some cliches are true, and war is definitely hell. It's being afraid all the time, and when you're not afraid it's because you're pumped full of adrenaline you could literally burst. It's watching people who you love- really profoundly love- get blown to pieces right next to you. It's seeing a leg lying in the ditch and picking it up to put it in a bag because no man- or part of a man, your friend- can be left behind. It's the dark night of the soul. There's no front line over there. The war is all around them, every day, everywhere they go. Some handle it better than others. We don't know why, but we do know this: the human mind can't safely or healthily process that kind of carnage and uncertainty and horror. It just can't. No one comes back from war the same. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#home

We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#divine-intuition #quotes-to-live-by #wisdom #death