#ought

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #life #thought #freedom

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- ↗

— Langston Hughes

#free-thought #philosophy #religion #art

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#come #get #justice #ought #process

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bishop #christ #devil #evangelism #evil

There is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook,bearing the proud name of"diary",to anyone,unless I find a real friend,boy or girl,probably nobody cares.And now I come to the root of the matter,the reason for my starting a diary:it is that I have no such real friend. Let me put it more clearly,since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world,nor is it so.I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen.I know about thirty people whom one might call friends--I have strings of boy friends,anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who,failing that,peep at me through mirrors in class.I have relations,aunts and uncles,who are darlings too,a good home,no--I don't seem to lack anything.But it's the same with all my friends,just fun and joking,nothing more.I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.We don't seem to be able to get any closer,that is the root of the trouble.Perhaps I lack confidence,but anyway,there it is,a stubborn fact and I don't seem to be able to do anything about it. ↗

— Anne Frank

#home

We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it. ↗

— Neneh Cherry

#because #boil #drunk #fact #getting

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now? ↗

— Adyashanti

#reality #thoughts #imagination

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#love #thoughts #imagination

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind. ↗

— George MacDonald

#thought #imagination

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. ↗

— John Draper

#depends #duration #feeling #nothing #rate