#ed

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#page- #freedom

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #freedom #justice #self-respect #women

... and her name was Freedom. ↗

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

#inspirational #wild-west #freedom

But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#politics #freedom

Freedome and responsibility is the same thing. ↗

— Alfonso Cuaron

#freedom

His first memory is an execution. ↗

— Blaine Harden

#freedom

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#tragedy #love

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#desires #losing-it #repression #unrequited-love #love

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#feelings #love #tangled #love