#mp

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#contemplation #freedom #happiness #leisure #freedom

Inhaling, I am ignited with the first breath of freedom ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #freedom

In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#divine-truth #freedom-of-choice #freedom

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories. ↗

— Jennifer Lanthier

#freedom-of-speech #journalism #prison #stamps #writing

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve. ↗

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

#mistakes #experience

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends. ↗

— Beth Bernobich

#redemption #friendship

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ↗

— Tara Brach

#compassion #self-compassion #spiritual #freedom

My conclusions, on this point, are as follows: when the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there is a general international move away from imprisonment for civil debt, of which the present committal proceedings are an adapted relic; when such imprisonment has been abolished in South Africa, save for its contested form as contempt of court in the magistrate's court; when the clauses concerned have already been interpreted by the Courts as restrictively as possible, without their constitutionally offensive core being eviscerated; when other tried and tested methods exist for recovery of debt from those in a position to pay; when the violation of the fundamental right to personal freedom is manifest, and the procedures used must inevitably possess a summary character if they are to be economically worthwhile to the creditor, then the very institution of civil imprisonment, however it may be described and however well directed its procedures might be, in itself must be regarded as highly questionable and not a compelling claimant for survival. ↗

— Albie Sachs

#debt #foreign-law #freedom #human-rights #law

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#companionship #couples #friendship #love #friendship