#do

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. ↗

— Joan Didion

#brilliant #coast #doing #ends #late

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#freedom #freedom

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#philosophy-of-life #freedom

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. ↗

— David Dinkins

#could #done #downtown #give #got

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. ↗

— Diogenes

#fewest #get #good #greatest #philosophers

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#day #down #drink #every #every day

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt. ↗

— H. A. Dorfman

#life #philosophy #freedom

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#freedom

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#how #i #i do #man #opposition

One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#better #eat #favorite #favorite things #good