"One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world."

-- Sami Al-Arian

#Freedom Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for peopleâ€™s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
“The Apple store is not a store. It is an exercise in evangelism.”
“The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.”

Source : Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Penguin
“No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.”
“I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are necessary in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.”
“There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.”

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