#avery

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything. ↗

— Rajan Shrestha

#awareness #brave #bravery #humor #inspirational

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#business #challenge #inspirational #motivation #strength

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that ↗

— Lalita Tademy

#hardness #lalita-tademy #life #slavery #life

I’ll let you see the door is open, so you know I’m open to the idea that you can leave anytime you want. So long as you are able to pick the lock on your handcuffs while you are blindfolded.
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— Jarod Kintz

#captive #choice #decision #door #freedom

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#freedom #slavery #food

In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave. ↗

— Mark Mirabello

#freedom #slavery #freedom

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always the godless ones: the Atheists; they lived, fought, and died for them. They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#atheism #bravery #secular #change

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dauntless #four #tris #bravery

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will. ↗

— James Stephens

#bravery

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#colored #race #race-america #race-relations #racism