#iona

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone. ↗

— Harriet Morgan

#guilt #inspirational #pain #sad #forgiveness

Teach every child you meet the importance of forgiveness. It's our only hope of surviving their wrath once they realize just how badly we've screwed things up for them. ↗

— Justin Sewell

#demotivators #forgiveness

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden. ↗

— Donna Goddard

#compassionate-love #forgiveness #love #forgiveness

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational #literature #freedom

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#inspirational #freedom

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#inspirational #president #freedom

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #freedom

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #inspirational #lateral-thinking #philosophy #rationalism

You have to choose your future regrets. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#future #life #philosophy-of-religion #rationality #wisdom