#lance

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ↗

— United Nations

#censorship #communication #encroachment #freedom-of-opinion #freedom-of-speech

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#become #important #important things #make #norm

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#between #busy #feeling #give #important

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#finding-yourself #inspirational #need #satisfaction #truth

...the age of surveillance is only a symptom of the new hyper-narcissism that has infected our collective reality tunnels. We invite the surveillance cameras into our homes because they are proof that someone is paying attention to us. ↗

— Moxie Mezcal

#age

People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance. ↗

— John Jordan Jordan Vineyard Winery

#divorce #wine #age

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#evil #good #art

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie." ("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.") ↗

— George Sand

#fiction #life #novels #realism #resemblance

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966)] ↗

— William O. Douglas

#freedom #government #privacy #surveillance #age

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dying-well #living-well #beauty