My kind of romance…
True love, to whom my heart is prey,
How dost thou hold me in thy sway
That in each day I find no fault
But daily wait for love’s assault
-Pernette du Guillet
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
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| — | Noam Chomsky (via quote-book) |
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
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| — | Eugene O’Neill (via libraryland) |
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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| — | Stephen Covey |
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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| — | John Pierpont (via kari-shma) |
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win
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| — | William Shakespeare (via mitralvalves) |
