"Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart."

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Source : John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274

John Ford

#Heart Quotes #Honest Quotes #Slave Quotes

“We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013
“I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.”
“When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.”
“That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.”
“I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.”
“When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.”
“People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.”
“I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.”

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