#rap

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly. ↗

— Andrew Bonar

#christianity #forgiveness

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#biography #done #great #history #writing

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast ↗

— Victor E. Frankl

#psychology #freedom

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ↗

— Noël Coward

#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside? ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#free #freedom #trap #freedom

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#free #freedom #prisoner #trapped #freedom

I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother. I was glad for her, it meant more freedom for the rest of us. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#freedom

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. ↗

— Jacob Appelbaum

#math #violence #freedom

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art