#reed

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being happy #conditions #domination #enables #freed

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#man #need #sufficiency #world

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? ↗

— Lynn Swann

#free #freedoms #how #more #option

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#greedy #i #old #parts #play

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. ↗

— Tertullian

#because #cannot #nothing #out #parcel

Freedom is such a gift. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#gift #such

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#art #children #christianity #contrast #etc

Freedom without limits is just a word. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#just #limits #without #word

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. ↗

— June Jordan

#freedom #friendship #going #i #mothers