#very

I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come. ↗

— Blaine Harden

#recovery #freedom

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#freedom

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable. It is the confidence that He will come through with His promises and that what He promises is more to be desired than all the world. ↗

— John Piper

#everything #freedom #joy #life #peace

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment ↗

— Harriet Jacobs

#kindness #love #slavery #freedom

There are no tyrants if there are no slaves. ↗

— José P. Rizal

#inspiration #slavery #freedom

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#freedom

Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission? ↗

— CrimethInc.

#anarchy #freedom #liberty #slavery #speech

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#intelligence #progress #slavery #think #freedom

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#free-will #freedom #individuality #intelligence #proud

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. ↗

— George Eliot

#everyday-life #life