#tory

Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#breaking-free #dogma #freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. ↗

— Barack Obama

#colonialism #history #dreams

The fragrance of white tea is the feeling of existing in the mists that float over waters; the scent of peony is the scent of the absence of negativity: a lack of confusion, doubt, and darkness; to smell a rose is to teach your soul to skip; a nut and a wood together is a walk over fallen Autumn leaves; the touch of jasmine is a night's dream under the nomad's moon. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fragrance #olfactory #perfumes #scent #senses

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#dreams #story #dreams

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#happiness #victory #dreams

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#fairytales #storytelling #dreams

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him. ↗

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

#history #life #old-age #age

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enemies #fighting #love #peace #trial