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Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and heartbeat. Whether it was the serenity and security of being surrounded by this living liquid, or the total distraction of the adventure of the unknown which took me far away from the daily weight of the child abuse and violence at home, I sank beneath the surface, and if only for those few moments, was free. ↗

— Tom North

#healing #ocean #home

Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a home in the suburbs, and idle weekends. But that is a freedom dependent upon affluence, which is in turn dependent upon the rapid consumption of exhaustible supplies. The other kind of freedom is the freedom to take care of ourselves and of each other. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom #freedom

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defiance #fearlessness #free-thinker #freedom #freedom-of-thought

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#freedom #imagination #freedom

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down. ↗

— Kristin Richter

#inspiration #freedom

وكل الخيارات الحرّة خيارات وعرة . ↗

— Hayat Alyaqout حياة الياقوت

#novel #options #freedom

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#happiness #freedom

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

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I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#freedom #minimalism #peace #freedom

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? ↗

— Aldo Leopold

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