#over

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. ↗

— Askhari Johnson Hodari

#cooperation #inspirational #proverbs #unity #wisdom

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ↗

— Swedish Proverb

#life #love #quotes #swedish-proverb #inspirational

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-true-to-yourself #honesty #inspiring-quotes #quotes-on-being-true-to-yourself #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! ↗

— Prophetess Dina Rolle

#adversity-inspirational #adversity-strength-achievement #dina-rolle #god #god-s-grace

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#freedom #government #participation #politics #responsibility

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#french-fries #government #labels #freedom

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom