896 – Jim Morrison on Freedom

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

-Jim Morrison

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874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

–John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

844 – “Life is not a having and a getting. But a being and a becoming.”

–Matthew Arnold

837 – “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

–Gayle Forman

776 – “Se sarete quello che dovete essere, metterete fuoco in tutta Italia, non tanto costì.”

“If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder.”

–Saint Catherine of Sienna

755 – “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.”

–anonymous [Often Misattributed, see Source Notes]

727 – “Since the fall of the Roman Empire, there has rarely been more interesting times than these. Whenever history becomes unstable and destinies hang in the balance, then magicians and messiahs appear everywhere. Our own civilization has moved into an epoch of permanent crisis and upheaval, and we are beset with a plague of wizards. They serve an historic purpose, for whenever a society undergoes radical change, alternative spiritualities proliferate, and from among these a culture will select a new world view.”

–Peter J Carroll