#elf

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

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life

Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#city-of-glass #shakespeare #stars-shine-darkly #twelfth-night #love

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#humor #self-assurance #self-worth #humor

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#goodness #inspiration #love #yourself #inspirational

The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#giving #greed #greedy #humor #receive

The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#motivation #self-confidence #motivational

In Life, you need to know the difference between what you think is right and what you know is right. ↗

— Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

#humor #life #wisdom #wise-sayings #humor

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying