#om

Hear the heartbeats of a nation silenced together on the impatient winds of change, And deafen your ears to the words of one. Melodized by emancipation.. Then open your eyes, open your eyes for me: Darling, freedom to you is a freedom to none. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#freedom #nation #change

A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#change

I suppose I should know better than to listen to gossip,” she said, feeling a prick of remorse. “Oh, some of it is true enough. I am a rake, my dear. You will just have to reform me.” “That is ridiculous! No one can reform another person. If you wish to change your way of life, you must do it yourself. ↗

— Elena Greene

#change

But there was only so much worrying you could do before you just had to accept what life throws at you and move on, because some things were going to be out of your control, and others can’t be fixed or changed. And for everything I’d lost over the last couple of months, I still had a lot. More than I expected, actually.”. ↗

— Jenn Bennett

#change

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#humor #roman #secrets #death

This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult #dreams

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire... ↗

— James Madison

#freedom

Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change. ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#human-experience #listening #silence #wisdom #change