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Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
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Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Independence of nation begins with independence of self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.
Freedom is like that. It's like air.
When you have it, you don't notice it.
- Boris Yeltsin
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The road to freedom lies not through
mysteries or occult performances,
but through the intelligent use
of natural forces and laws.
- Ernest Holmes
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Freedom is not procured by a full
enjoyment of what is desired,
but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
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