"Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem."

-- Robert Fulghum

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

Source : "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”
“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.”
“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
“What I have written, I have written.”
“The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.”
“if we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...”

Source : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

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