“Our First Amendment rights are not given to us by the government but are rights we inherently possess. The government cannot use subsequent amendments to limit First Amendment rights. The Free Exercise Clause is both an individual and a collective liberty protecting a right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience. Therefore, we strongly support the freedom of Americans to act in accordance with their religious beliefs, not only in their houses of worship, but also in their everyday lives.”
― Republican Platform 2016
― Republican Platform 2016
“My loyalty is to the people who bring positivity into my life. My loyalty is to the people who want to build me up and see me happy. Those are the people I’m going to make decisions about my life for.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“There’s this toxic belief that family should stick together simply because they’re family. But the best thing I ever did for myself was walk away from them.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not only on this planet, but throughout the universe, I suspect. And it is not something somebody gave us. It is a thing we give to ourselves.
"Meditation is holy to me, for I believe that all the secrets of existence and nonexistence are somewhere in our heads--or in other people's heads.
"And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well.
"This to me is a miracle.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
"Meditation is holy to me, for I believe that all the secrets of existence and nonexistence are somewhere in our heads--or in other people's heads.
"And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well.
"This to me is a miracle.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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