#end

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority. ↗

— Thorin

#self-determination

If a responsible, mentally sound American wants to own and AR-15, that’s their right. Besides, when the zombies come…okay, you don’t like the zombie thing. When the Chinese invade our country, who do you want to depend on? The over-extended police force and the National Guard? Or the next door neighbor who’s a former Marine and has enough guns and ammunition for your entire block? ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#second-amendment #zombies #zombies

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#faith #inspirational #religious-faith #faith

They do not love, that do not show their love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friends #gratitude #insparational #love #william-shakespeare

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career. ↗

— Harold Budd

#career #ending #felt #i #interesting

We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the pattern by urging all these Sleeping Beauties to grow up and live their own lives? There never will be enough Prince Charmings or enough therapists to break that pattern now. It is society's job, and finally that of each woman alone. For it is not the strength of the mothers that is at fault but their weakness, their passive childlike dependency and immaturity that is mistaken for "femininity." Our society forces boys, insofar as it can, to grow up, to endure the pains of growth, to educate themselves to work, to move on. Why aren't girls forced to grow up - to achieve somehow the core of self that will end the unnecessary dilemma, the mistaken choice between femaleness and humanness that is implied in the feminine mystique? ↗

— Betty Friedan

#gender-stereotypes #beauty

The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#united-states

My house feels like home when you're there. ↗

— Susan Richards Shreve

#friends #home #family

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. ↗

— Noah Webster

#united-states