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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: civil-rights
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    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
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    Marie Lu
    “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
    tags: courage, freedom, inspirational-attitude, leadership, politics, revolution, society, strength
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  • #8
    George Orwell
    “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
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  • #9
    Malcolm X
    “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: freedom, self-worth
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: conformity, freedom, growth, individuality
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    Fred Rogers
    “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
    ― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
    tags: inspirational, stress
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    Stephen Colbert
    “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear, freedom
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  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

    - I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
    - I shall fear only God.
    - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
    - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
    - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    ― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: fear
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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    Pendleton Ward
    “This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.”
    ― Pendleton Ward, Adventure Time, Vol. 1
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Where there is love there is life.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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  • #30
    Tommy Newberry
    “If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”
    ― Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices, Change Your Life
    tags: extraordinary, life, life-lessons, ordinary, self-development, success
    55 likes



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