#do

I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #impatience #patient #wisdom #wise

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. ↗

— Yann Martel

#freedom

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #cats #dogs #food #god

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#humanity #mistakes #freedom

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#freedom #oppression #freedom

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#women #writing #freedom

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ↗

— George Orwell

#ignorance #inspirational #war #freedom

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#self #freedom