#ship

Don't yell at me, listen to me. Don't walk away from me, support me. Don't stop loving me, believe in me. Don't punish me, forgive me. ↗

— Tania Gardana

#relationships #forgiveness

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#freedom #freedom

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#freedom

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#dictatorship #fear #freedom #government #independent-thought

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#faith #financial-freedom #giving #promise #sacrifice

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fanaticism #freedom-of-religion #war #worship #freedom

In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street ↗

— Aberjhani

#love #poetry #psychology #relationships #solititude

Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#relationship #relationships #freedom

All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want. ↗

— Mark Coker

#indie-writing #freedom

الحكاية أسلوب معروف قرّب..جرّب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب أسلوب معروف لا تشرّق مني ولا تغرّب بالوصفة دي تعرف تحكمهم وتلملمهم من أي طروف إعمل قديس واحفظ أحوالهم واتشرب وباركهم ..بس املاهم خوف!! حاور..داور..ناور.. املاهاحلقات ومحاور حط الأعصاب في التلاجة بالراحة لحد ما تهلكمهم.. واعمل انك عامل معروف.!! هدد بالضرب بلاش تضرب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب يتعبوا..ويكلوا..ويملوا يتسرسبوا واحد.. والتاني ماشي في ضله وانت افضل شوف افضل لنهاية الشوط كله واللي يشكلك شكله مرة بحزم..ومرة بتحسيس أسلوب معروف البشر الخاطي.. والقديس!! ↗

— عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

#freedom #freedom