#aw

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo #law-of-contraries #secret #sisters #louisa-may-alcott

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#god #law-and-gospel #spirit #freedom

I’d never name my kid Mark, for fear he’d be a target—a mark.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #humor #random #random-thought

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#doctrine #ethics #law #morality #principles

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

We're half-awake in a fake empire. ↗

— Margaux Froley

#awaken #inspirational #inspired #inspirational

Are these the friends and life i want to have? ↗

— Siobhan Vivian

#life

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#life #self-awareness #self-help #truth #beauty

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :) ↗

— Taylor Swift

#loving #taylor-swift #true #love

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life