"Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle."

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Daisaku Ikeda

#Mean Quotes #Insperational Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.”
“We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.”
“He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.”
“No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press
“I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.”
“I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.”
“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”
“There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.”

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