#life

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#paradox #privacy #life

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#truth #freedom

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#courage

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference) ↗

— Greg Campbell

#dealing-with-people #everyday-life #fighting #humor #stupid-people

If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary. ↗

— Toba Beta

#job #love #salary #life

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #life #thought #freedom

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#life #architecture

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love. ↗

— John Paul II

#life #love #p #freedom

Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled to leave his wife and children, who were the major part of his old, rational world. My own response to the wild unpredictability of the universe has been to write stories, to play the piano, to read, listen to music, look at paintings - not that the world may become explainable and reasonable but that I may rejoice in the freedom which unaccountability gives us. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#randomness #freedom