Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
A fasting person is in a state of worship even if asleep in bed. Every breath he takes while asleep is ‘tasbih’, and his sleep itself is worship.
Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.
-Suzanne Woods Fisher
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-Margaret Oliphant