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You are here to understand yourself, not to be understood.

Unknown
Women get addressed by Miss, Mrs., or Ms. because society deems it important to know if she is single, married or widowed. Men are only addressed by Mr. because their relationship to women does not affect their social status.

Unknown
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Bell Hooks
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I dream too much and I don’t write enough and I’m trying to find God everywhere.

Anis Mojgani
Imagine a world led by mothers, healers, artists, nurturers. we’d be safe, we’d be fed. we’d be held.

Han
This is your sign to become a little weirder and a little more difficult to explain.

Unknown
If you post a picture of your bookshelf, I will zoom and snoop.

Unknown
it is a blessing
to be the color of earth
do you know how often
flowers confuse me for home

rupi kaur
The goal is to live a life that doesn’t require an escape. Not needing a vacation from your own mind. Not needing to earn peace. Just waking up and realizing, oh this feels like me. I don’t have to run from this.

hasif
I will never judge a person who breaks down in tears over something small, because I know very well that they are not crying for that reason, but for everything they have been holding inside until that moment.

Unknown
To remain tender in a world that exalts hardness is to wage war against the corrosion of the soul. To listen deeply is to meet pain with presence. To offer care without condition, without transaction, is to reclaim the sacred in a world that has forgotten how to hold one another. In a world increasingly shaped by self-interest, gestures of empathy become radical in the face of a dehumanised, desensitised society.

Jericho
The problem we face is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.

E.O. Wilson
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Audre Lorde

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau


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

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin
This life may not look like what you asked for, but it's the clay you've been given to shape. Make something that could only come from you.

Scott Stillman
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