#tho

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#beauty #california #climbing #female-author #heaven

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#freedom

My ideas aren't afraid of height. ↗

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

#freedom #height #ideas #thoughts #freedom

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-the-thought #idea #freedom

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking. ↗

— Joel T. McGrath

#writing #freedom

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#freedom #man #oneness #self #freedom

The best fighter is never angry. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #martial-arts

A freedom given up is not so easily regained. ↗