I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent Image © Mark Goldberg with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Veronica Roth
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Quote for Today: Rupi Kaur
do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house! Let me have all the freedom I have lost; Work when I will and idle when I will! Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance … Continue reading Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
A Quiet Revolution: Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience
We classify ourselves into groups which give meaning and order to our experiences. What happens when those groups inhibit growth? Ronit is the daughter of an orthodox Jewish rabbi, living a secular life as a successful photographer. Disowned by her family and cut off from her roots because of a teenage romance with a young … Continue reading A Quiet Revolution: Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience
Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
