#pro

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink. ↗

— George Jones

#drink #drunk #life #problems #life

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free. ↗

— Laure Lacornette

#productivity #quote #space #freedom

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#initiative #progress #sadness #freedom

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

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. ↗

— Epicurus

#cater #crowd #i #i do #know

I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#hell #profound #death

Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine. ↗

— Sara Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #you-get-yours-and-i-ll-get-mine

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain. ↗

— Criss Jami

#betterment #complain #complained #complainee #complainer

He understood privacy and freedom of expression were paramount to liberty, as incompatible as they may appear. One promoted yelling and screaming, while the other encouraged people to retreat and pull within. Yet, cornerstones to American democracy, people needed them both for the lives they took for granted. ↗

— Shelter Somerset

#expression #freedom #liberty #shelter-somerset #freedom

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy. ↗

— Malalai Joya

#politics #progress #rights #freedom