Arms wide open Quote by Sarah Bessey

“I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, second-chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide…

— Sarah Bessey

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“True belonging has no bunkers. We have to step out from behind the barricades of self-preservation and brave the wild.”

— Brené Brown

“Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet…

— Ayn Rand

“There are so many people who though can fight life and win greatly, yet they have imprisoned their own true strength and they just…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“So much for ‘Give us your tired and hungry, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,”

— Wally Lamb

“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their powers.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“All the enormous machines that keep full Citizens comfortable far above us in their glittering towers, all the infrastructure of power, of fuel, of…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner…

— K.P. Yohannan

“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible…

— Anna White