#ions

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. ↗

— Kalle Lasn

#democracy #freedom

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us. ↗

— Ryel Kestenbaum

#barriers #burden #civilization #distractions #freedom

Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#expectations #freedom #moment #naked #path

Quoting from Phillip Moffitt Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? The most profound change I’m aware of just now is a growing realization that life is not personal. This may seem a surprising or even strange view to those unfamiliar with Eastern spirituality, but it has powerful implications. It’s very freeing to see that events in my life are arising because of circumstances in which I am not involved, but that I’m not at the center of them in any particular way. They’re impersonal. They’re arising because of causes and conditions. They are not “me.” There is a profound freedom in this. It makes life much more peaceful and harmonious because I’m not in reaction to events all the time. (134) ↗

— Stephen Cope

#conditions #impersonal #life #reaction-freedom #change

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you ↗

— Erykah Badu

#love #relationships #friendship

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fail #friendship #love #relationships #friendship

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit. ↗

— Brian Thompson

#love #relationship #friendship

Who are you anyway? What are you even doing here?” “Haven,” she said quietly, peeking at him. He gazed at her peculiarly. “Heaven? No, this definitely isn't Heaven. But I get why you’re confused, since I'm standing in front of you.” She stared at him, and he cracked a smile. “I'm kidding. Well, kinda… I have been told I've taken a girl to Heaven a time or two.” “Haven, not Heaven,” she said, louder than before. Nothing about the conversation made sense to her. “My name’s Haven. ↗

— J.M. Darhower

#first-impressions #first-love #friendship #girl #love

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#high-school #love #relationships #sweet #teenage-love

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#love #opportunity #relations #friendship