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“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds”
― Bob Marley, Redemption Song Sheet Music

“positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.”
― Joseph B Wirthlin

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When you want to comfort someone don’t listen to their words; the words may be misleading or wrong…go straight to their heart, straight to their hurt. Their words may be pushing you away, but they still need comforting.”
― Brian L. Weiss, Through Time Into Healing

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Love is wise,
Hatred is foolish”
― Bertrand Russell