Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage._x000D_ Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:_x000D_ If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,_x000D_ Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.
Interpretation
True freedom comes from within and is not confined by physical barriers.
This quote by Richard Lovelace suggests that physical constraints, such as walls or bars, do not define one's state of freedom. It emphasizes that true liberty is found in the purity and tranquility of the mind and soul, suggesting that a peaceful and loving spirit can transcend any external limitations.
In practice
This quote can be cited in a discussion about mental health and the importance of inner peace.
It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.
I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.
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