“You are made a slave in a moment by the world, if you don't begin life by defying it.”
Source: Camilla
“Through our work and through getting what we need on our own, without depending on others, we can stand tall and realize our potential as humans.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“Τα ανεξάρτητα κράτη και οι ελεύθερες κοινωνίες ποτέ, μα ποτέ, στην ιστορία δεν χτίστηκαν με λόγια και διακηρύξεις. Η ενοποίηση αλλά και η διαμόρφωση των ορίων της νεοαποκτηθείσης ελευθερίας, θα ερχόταν μέσα από δοκιμασία. Μακρόχρονη και πικρή δοκιμασία”
Source: 1821: Ενάντια σε φρούρια και τείχη
“Francesca não respondeu, intrigada com aquele homem (...) que tocava viola, que ganhava a vida com imagens e carregava o equipamento em mochilas. Que era como o vento. E que se movia como o vento. Que talvez viesse dele.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“It's a nice thing to cook for yourself.”
Source: Cackle
“She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.”
Source: Winter Stroll
“John Bowlby understood that our need for someone to share our lives with is part of
our genetic makeup and has nothing to do with how much we love ourselves or how fulfilled we feel on our own. He discovered that once we choose someone special, powerful and often uncontrollable forces
come into play.
New patterns of behavior kick in regardless of how independent we are and despite our conscious wills.
Once we choose a partner, there is no question about whether dependency exists or not. It always does. An elegant coexistence that does not include uncomfortable feelings of vulnerability and fear of loss sounds good but is not our biology. What proved through evolution to have a strong survival advantage is a human couple becoming one physiological unit, which means that if she’s reacting, then I’m reacting, or if he’s upset, that also makes me unsettled. He or she is part of me, and I will do anything to save him or her; having such a vested interest in the well-being of another person translates into a very important survival advantage for both parties.”
Source: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
“in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rather in Philadelphia, the host city of the Continental Congress. Two of the society’s early leaders were Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, who both, in the summer of 1776, added their names to the American Declaration of Independence.”
Source: The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
“I learned how freedom is connected to responsibility, and how I cold combine my desire for independence with something that helped the rest of the world.”
Source: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
“She scoffed. 'I guess what I'm trying to say is that not having a man around isn't the end of the world.”
Source: Hell Spring