"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Freedom, Loss, Change, Opportunity

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"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."

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"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee"."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god's world."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"A lot of people us the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I need fifteen minutes of Freedom."

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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

Mindfulness

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

Mystery

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

Empathy

"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."

Mindfulness

"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

Mortality

"Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars."

Legacy

"Aim low and you won't be disappointed."

Attitude

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."

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