"According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self."

-- Robert P. George

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Promise Quotes

“I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.”
“In the battle between planning and action, action wins.”

Source : "The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future". Book by Chris Guillebeau, 2012.
“The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.”

Source : Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.”
“What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!”
“I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.
“Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.”

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