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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
History develops, art stands still.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
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.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
