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Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

Who you were is not who you are. Who you are, is what you will be. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#motivational-inspirational #inspirational

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#essence #future #gist #horizon #meaning

Don't put all your eggs in one basket ↗

— Nikki Ziehl

#inspirational

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation ↗

— Julia Kristeva

#politics #death

Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn. ↗

— Koichiro Matsuura

#freedom

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. ↗

— John Waters

#freedom #reading #wealth #freedom

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#sadness #shame #insight

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literature #reading #freedom