There’s freedom in madness, freedom in people not expecting you to conform, and freedom in changing without having to explain to everyone. A predictable life is a boring one.
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.’
The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life, when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, wi…
Forgetting is a form of freedom, so I release you.
I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes. It was a very close call for me.’ He also jokingly stated, ‘alcohol is our friend. I think that’s the moral of that story.’ He also said that he thanked God that his travel agent…
At the last minute they changed their plans and decided to charter a plane to Toronto, Canada, for a film festival. From Toronto, they flew on to Los Angeles. This near brush with death still haunts his dreams. Wahlberg recalled what might have been had he and his buddies been on that flight: ‘We ce…
I felt that my life had been saved for some specific reason.’ ‘I have yet to figure that out, but I do a lot of charity work now, which I was doing before, but I do a lot more.
It was a feeling like I’ve never felt before,’ he remembers. ‘I couldn’t really hear anything, but this rumble was unusual. Later I would realize it was the impact of the first plane.’ ‘When I got out a few minutes later I could see that where Windows on the World was there was a fire. The extent of…
I may be in LA but I will always be a New Yorker. Today my heart bleeds with memories and sorrow for anyone affected by that tragic attack.. 14 years. I cant believe that much time has passed. I can still smell and feel the ash residing for months in the east village.
This day always feels unlike any other…. Because we will never forget. We all remember where we were on that horrific day that changed all of our lives forever. Today we remember those that lost their lives.
Every time I come to New York, I remember how powerful the spirit of this city is. Especially today. NYC, I love you.
I remember exactly where I was the minute I turned the tv on. Will never forget this day, and I think it’s important to not forget. Not forget the innocent people that lost their lives, not forget the brave NYC 1st responders, and not to forget terrorists that did this. Thank you to our military tha…
My overwhelming reaction to 9/11 - I was at home in Los Angeles getting my two children, then ten and 12, ready for school - is inextricably bound up not with what happened on 9/11, but with what happened the next day ... Lines formed at blood banks, billions of dollars were donated to charities and…
It was the most terrifying, the most heartbreaking day. I was on a plane the evening before it happened, September 10. I was in Los Angeles, and all I wanted was to get back to my home — New York.
Every time that day kind of comes about, I always think about the fact that I was in the 4th grade and what happened and all those feelings that we had and how everybody was distraught. I just feel like every time that comes around, I hope people acknowledge it and I hope that they just keep praying…