But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right,
or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature?
There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact.
For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient;
from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
– Aristotle, Politics, 350 B.C.E.
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
– Christian Morgenstern
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/161531-home-is-not-where-you-live-but-where-they-understand
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action –
from a peaceful heart.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie, from his book 100 Secrets for Finding The Life You Love
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
– Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
All that we see or seem is
but a dream within a dream.
– Edgar Allan Poe
http://sydneyreising.tumblr.com/post/20584411362/all-that-we-see-or-seem-is-but-a-dream-within-a
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
– Albert Einstein
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
– Edgar Allan Poe