"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."

-- Dante Alighieri

#Freedom Quotes #Choices Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.”
“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.”
“No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”
“I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.24, New World Library
“It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.”
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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