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“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the cracks from spreading,
But eventually they will.
Sometimes to keep yourself together
You must allow yourself to leave,
Even if breaking your own heart
Is what it takes to let you breathe.”
― Erin Hanson

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”
― David Bottoms

“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perfect law" in order fix everything, while failing to see that law only points towards what is material. And so, people find themselves going around in a circle that will never end. The key is to break away from that circle. You have to begin focusing your attention onto what is inside you and what is inside everybody else. This will in turn produce common sense, intuition, and understanding. Then comes strength.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Her voice cracks. 'It's hard when someone says they love you, but they need to contain and control the things that make you you'.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“You pushed me down to the depths of my sorrow until I thought I wouldn’t see the light of day again. You expected me to drown, didn’t you? To be left there for an eternity, waiting for your hand to pull me out? What you didn’t stop to realize is that I live in the shadows, thrive even. When I pull myself from the darkness, I’ll be stronger for it and you’ll regret leaving me for dead.”
― Kayla Krantz, When Night Falls: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems

“If the people in your circle aren't contributing to your growth, then you're not in a circle... you're in a cage.”
― Kianu Starr

“Any system that does not allow one to question it, has its roots digging into manipulation and control. And manipulation and control are devised by people in power. Not by gods and angels. If you fear questioning what you have been taught and if you fear to think freely and make decisions based upon what you feel, see and know; because a system has taught you to have that fear, you should know that you are under that manipulation, you are under that control. You have this one life and you are planning to live it based upon a path dictated to you as the truth, instead of questioning and seeking what the truth might actually be. Truth does not need to tell you not to look left and not to look right, because the validity of its character does not depend upon whether you open your eyes or not! Truth remains true in all times and it will encourage you to think freely, to ask questions, and to seek! Truth is not a fragile thing easily broken if you fail to tiptoe around it. Truth is not a fragile thing easily broken if you fail to wrap your hands around it. Truth is never failing and does not need the human race, or any other race living or dead, to validate it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“First, break free; then break through.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“Strive to leave a legacy beyond your limitations and far beyond the expectations of others.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone”
― Sunday Adelaja

“She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as it she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Breaking free from emotional servitude and creating a day without yesterday can allow us to suspend time and give way to new thinking, and provide context to our life. ("The freedom of new thinking")”
― Erik Pervernagie

“Liberation is an existential style.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“People where I live are born in cradles, then grow up in boxes, then die in coffins. From cradle to coffin--they exist in boxes. And they wish that I join them, sometimes they try, but then I bite their fingers off.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another look cast backward,
Then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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سأذهب للتسبح قليلاً.
أخشى أن لا أعود..
الأمواج تغازلني وتدعوني للعشاء دوماً.
أخشى أن أوافق على ملاقتهن..
أخشى أن أذهب..
أخشى أن لا اعود..

سأذهب للركض قليلاً .
أخشى أن لا اعود..
الغيوم تنده اسمي باستمرار.
أخشى ان ألبّي نداءاتهن..
اخشى ان أذهب يا أمي..
أخشى أن لا اعود..”
― Malak El Halabi, سمير

“No matter the strength of their wings, most never leave their cages.”
― Jason Versey

“Humans make boxes, put themselves into those boxes, then pull other people in along with them. Everything I do and everything that I am, are the results of climbing out of their boxes and then not allowing myself to be pulled into new ones. Because once you are freed from one, there is always another, and yet another, box that some human will try to pull you into. Especially in the society which I live: a giant box filled with a hundred million tiny boxes, all trying to trap you inside them. And some will tell you that God is in their box with them! Bloody hell of a lie. God cannot be found inside of their cubicles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The Wretched Rulers of Freiland by Stewart Stafford

A two-faced mirror, vainly warm,
A beauteous sheen to a swinish form,
Bloated with gold and wanton pride,
As cormorants in cuckoo nests, they hide.

They gorge on fabrication, binge on strife,
Parasites living off another life,
Suckers draining every dream,
Like leeches in a poisoned stream.

Shells crack, the rotten egg cabal;
The bonfire of inanities banal,
Power loosened in a fading grip,
Fleeing the wake of freedom's ship.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It is your conscious Presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don't identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts. The pain-body in most cases does not dissolve immediately, but once you have severed the link between it and your thinking, the pain-body begins to lose energy. Your thinking ceases to be clouded by emotion; your present perceptions are no longer distorted by the past.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Red. The color of hearts split open and the fire in my veins. A scream of rage, of cursing the white kids who had laughed at my name, of severing the thread binding me to the devils in my house. A color of passion. Of my people. Of rising from the ashes.”
― Phoenix Ning, Scarlet Butterfly

“Sometimes, you have to do things you're not supposed to in order to enjoy life. Sometimes happiness lies in breaking the rules.”
― Asif Hossain

“The rational world view that is maintained by the waking conscious self is a perfect cage; it limits our potential so much that even the contemplation of the possibility of another greater reality is interpreted as insanity, guaranteeing that few will ever even suspect the marvels hidden in the depths of the Second World. But that is the price we all are willing to pay I suppose, to also protect the cozy sensible human world from the titans beyond the gate.”
― John Kreiter, The Way of the Projectionist: Alchemy’s Secret Formula to Altered States and Breaking the Prison of the Flesh

“It's always the same. There is one person who cares very much and one person who doesn't seem to care, or who only half-cares. The one who doesn't care too much is in control. The relationship ends when the one who doesn't care gets tired of the game.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Bell Tolls for No One

“Aber störte mich das? Mein ganzes Leben lang folgte ich immer einer Routine. Es fühlte sich komisch an, aus einem Kreis auszubrechen, und vermutlich hatte ich einfach nur Angst.”
― Arden Skye, Crossroads -- March of Robots

“something not entirely right. But without options beyond what’s expected and with a deep desire for approval, one does what one sees.

At least, that is what one does until one no longer can.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“This is one of the great paradoxes of life. There can be real chaos in our lives and, at the same time, the potential for great growth and healing. When we begin to wake up and become aware that our lives can be unchained from the slavery of our illusions, we can truly start to live in the world as fulfilled, happy people, and in the process, play our part in its transformation. Life is chaos, and all is well.”
― Steve Huff