#la

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #relationships #rules #freedom

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#freedom #law #liberty #respect #right

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#control #control-freaks #god #law #law-and-gospel

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship. ↗

— Steve Brown

#joy #laughter #religion #worship #freedom

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. ↗

— Strickland Gillian

#literacy #love #mother #quote #reading

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". ↗

— Deb Caletti

#life #love #relationships #inspirational

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#heartland #home #longing #inspirational

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . . ↗

— Mary O'Neill

#book #color #inspiration #mary #o-neill

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

#lantern #light #poem #inspirational