Ever try to hold a butterfly? ...

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can\'t be done. You damage them,\
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
 Susanna Kearsley

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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 Winston Churchill
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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 Mahatma Gandhi
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
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 Benjamin Franklin

Quotes from the same author

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.
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 Susanna Kearsley
Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.
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 Susanna Kearsley
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
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 Susanna Kearsley