Appendix 1 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?’ – Oscar Wilde
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Epilogue of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it!’ – Remy de Gourment
Chapter 21 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘On action alone be thy interest. Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.’ – Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 20 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.’ – Indian Proverb
Chapter 19 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you…Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question…Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; If it doesn’t it is of no use.’ – Carlos Castaneda
Chapter 18 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand.’ – Blaise Pascal
Chapter 17 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Genuine love ought to be founded on the mutual recognition of two liberties; the lovers would then experience themselves both as self and the other; neither would give up transcendence, neither would be mutilated. Together they would manifest values and aims in the world.’ – Simone de Beauvoir
Chapter 16 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.’ – Boris Pasternik
Chapter 15 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.’ – Oscar Wilde
Chapter 14 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘As far as we are able to understand, the only aim of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.’ – Carl Jung
Chapter 13 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?’ – Michel de Saint-Pierre
Chapter 12 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions: reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.’ – Simone Weil
Chapter 11 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Energy is the only life … Energy is eternal delight.’ – William Blake
Chapter 10 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.’ – Isaiah
Chapter 9 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of Liberty is the history of resistance. The history of Liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’ – Woodrow Wilson
Chapter 8 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.’ – George Santayana
Chapter 7 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘A child becomes an adult when they realise that they have a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.’ – Thomas Szasz
Chapter 6 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Four things come not back: the spoken word; the arrow sped; time passed; the neglected opportunity.’ – Omar ibn Al-Halif
Chapter 5 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘I knew what I wanted and determined at an early age that no man would ever tell me what to do. I would make my own rules.’ – Mae West
Chapter 4 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm – that’s all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I’m alive!’ – John Osborn
Chapter 3 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Like the flowers I need dew and night air.’ – Georg Buchner
Chapter 2 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it.’ – George Bernard Shaw
Chapter 1 of The Freedom Tree – visit www.thefreedomtree.com
‘Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man, afraid of the light?’ – Maurice Freehill
