#hum

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#political #freedom

he had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#humor

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humility #inspirational #inspirational

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#inspirational #writing #humor

Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #love #nature #humor

Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#inspirational #life #music #truth #humor

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#inspirational #humor

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#humor

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #humility #inspirational #spirituality #suffering

It's all well and good to have profound thoughts on a regular basis, but I think it's not enough. Well, I mean: I'm going to commit suicide and set the house on fire in a few months; obviously I can't assume I have time at my disposal, therefore I have to do something substantial with the little I do have. And above all, I've set myself a little challenge: if you commit suicide, you have to be sure of what you're doing and not burn the house down for nothing. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#inspiring #suicide #inspirational