10 Quotes a Day: Freedom, Friendship, Frogs

Freedom

1. “When you incarcerate someone, guilty or not, you incarcerate the innocents who love them, and there are always such people” (Warren Fellows, The Damage Done)

2. “Your freedom to make decisions based on what you want is the only thing that sets you apart from an animal in a zoo.” (Warren Fellows, The Damage Done)

3. “Death, it seemed, it was the only sure way of freedom.” (Warren Fellows, The Damage Done)

Friendship

4. “The habit of friendship is matured by constant intercourse.” (Libanius)

5. “Not all friendships of youth survive reunions.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)

6. “But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence.” (Katherine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown)

7. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)

8. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)

9. “… the next new friends you make I hope will be better worth keeping.” (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)

Frogs

10. “Frogs do not move around much in the daytime; they hide under ferns and they look secretly out of holes under rocks. The way to catch frogs is with a flashlight at night.” (John Steinbeck, Cannery Row)

Author V.M. Simandan

is a Beijing-based Romanian positive psychology counsellor and former competitive archer

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