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3a3e1e0 The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. meaning religion god truth purpose knowledge Carl Sagan
e6a51dd Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. feelings learning humor education life love truth inspirational expression Jason Mraz
556d500 We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction. emotion truth brainwashing cheat falsity orthodox religionists bias indoctrination conformity value evidence atheism atheist honor H.P. Lovecraft
51b6405 People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop! follow-your-dreams courage living motivational truth inspirational clarity determination Steve Maraboli
fa80c91 "How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?" world past truth simper R.A. Salvatore
5e675c8 People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there lies truth inspirational deception Zoë Marriott
a77cb77 "Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true." depression reality truth Andrew Solomon
91247c4 "Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'." pain grief life love truth detachment emotions vulnerability Mitch Albom
4de2b16 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. faith god love philosophy truth Anonymous
009c541 We are what we believe we are! truth inspirational bright amazing C.S. Lewis
61f3905 Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do. integrity leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational success life-lessons optimism life truth inspirational improvement truthful Roy T. Bennett
bd0746e For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. truth public Milan Kundera
c2e0471 Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. wrong truth right L.M. Montgomery
3cb8191 Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose. acceptance-of-oneself motivational life truth inspirational strengths weaknesses tools purpose Steve Maraboli
4dc3617 "The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself. But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit." -- reality honesty philosophy truth sincerity Harry G. Frankfurt
2d7ee33 There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight! flying-spirit letting-go inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living destiny god life truth inspirational footprints flying meaning-of-life belief C. JoyBell C.
cb94e1b The treacherous are ever distrustful. fantasy philosophy truth inspirational gandalf J.R.R. Tolkien
f7c8f0d Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office. truth inspirational experience Simone Elkeles
9ecabe7 "People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth." truth Thomas Sowell
bada1b7 We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. opinons nature human truth inspirational answers Kurt Cobain
391ce81 Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. truth Jodi Picoult
1f29cdc Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. war life truth solemn warrior George R.R. Martin
fe607d0 It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. reality truth game-of-thrones George R.R. Martin
47cdd17 Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller the impossibility Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops the impossibility Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench Chatterton drinking rat poison Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly mad truth beatiful champions cowards bukowski glory creatures dog soul Charles Bukowski
2555de1 All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. truth Thomas Jefferson
b8b8363 People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. prejudice people truth rumor libel reputation neighbor slander George Eliot
e0cf19f There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. truth view C.S. Lewis
074f6ac Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational excellence critics Robert A. Heinlein
b1af5b4 I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. be-yourself sex word-junkies feelings relationships beauty heartbreak life-lessons heart life love truth inspirational realist best heartache infatuation sentimental head mistakes lust Crystal Woods
0fb7a1d Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. beauty truth inspirational Khalil Gibran
8c88fdc "Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise truth wisdom alice walker
766dd96 Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. mind life truth denial body Sara Gruen
b3a302e "In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. lies good truth perception evil Pedro Calderón de la Barca
dbc3ebd Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? motivational spiritual love truth inspirational self-empowerment self-realization self-esteem Marianne Williamson
e29d96c Be a true Heart, not a follower. life truth inspirational Ed Sheeran
3d8c645 "I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth,--the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names." poetry death truth keats emily dickinson
905dd29 Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark truth rigor night Isaac Bashevis Singer
b221f30 Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear. love truth wisdom inspirational L.J. Smith
fe2889e Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. racism truth Harper Lee
b3afc7b Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. life philosophy truth relevance Edgar Allan Poe
c6b6687 Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. life truth young Gabriel García Márquez
9c0a575 Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning. truth inspirational Santosh Kalwar
0358a63 If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. fiction love truth jodi-picoult filled plain-truth say okay tell empty speak mystery drama novel Jodi Picoult
21ef52d We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God. god hope truth inspirational results faithful Alex Harris
124627b We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone. lies life truth schizophrenia Irvine Welsh
86deb4c It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. self-awareness inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes truth inspirational self-reflection reflections the-world self-discovery self mirror C. JoyBell C.
4970eb8 By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. life truth Virginia Woolf
b17ccb6 The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. science truth inspirational Socrates
7187493 It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. understanding truth E. M. Forster
4265129 It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. quote truth cassandra-clare tenderness Cassandra Clare
f525161 Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. rebellion love truth Kahlil Gibran
80ce7ad The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture. truth storytelling Karen Joy Fowler
6e2583d Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? religion truth Bill Watterson
472a599 Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. philosophy truth Alexandre Dumas
3a407cd "Interviewer: Didn't want to believe? Druyan: science truth sagan astronomy carl-sagan belief atheism knowledge Ann Druyan
8f772ac I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. terry-pratchett witches life truth inspirational tiffany-aching Terry Pratchett
6fb18db There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation. religion god hope truth inspirational salvation important eternity Kirk Cameron
2b4664d "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." inspiration love truth Anonymous
505db86 The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. truth born born-here choke palahniuk immigrant immigration Chuck Palahniuk
66b63a9 I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him. relationships truth Bram Stoker
67c2bb2 "The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers." friendship love truth C.S. Lewis
c495b9d A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. truth Arthur C. Clarke
06ae62a My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. kindness trust god truth peace Anonymous
2be6530 A truth that no one knows is still the truth. truth inspirational Sharon Shinn
7381654 Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? truth Virginia Woolf
260fb5a Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for ages, has superstitiously believed in what he calls a God does not prove at all that his theory has been right. There have been many gods - all makeshifts, born of inability to fathom the deep fundamental truth. There must be something at the bottom of existence, and man, in ignorance, being unable to discover what it is through reason, because his reason has been so imperfect, undeveloped, has used, instead, imagination, and created figments, of one kind or another, which, according to the country he was born in, the suggestions of his environment, satisfied him for the time being. Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved. We accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof; why should we, then, be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters, with a mere theory immortality makeshift satisfaction theory wonder reason science truth inspirational superstitious falsehood miracles study theology naturalism gods destruction soul Thomas A. Edison
a13fc06 The truth of the story lies in the details. story truth tension Paul Auster
d71f799 Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. illuminate truth inspirational shine saint contemplate beautiful Thomas Aquinas
b04d2cd A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right. life truth mistake right Sophie Kinsella
37e9606 But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it. truth storytelling Robin McKinley
0e95b59 Words have weight. words writing truth Stephen King
e43a518 She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. truth foolishness psychology Jeffery Deaver
f1dbb1e A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability alliance-for-progress latin-american-politics politics truth inspirational latin-america revolution Robert F. Kennedy
9d68731 To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge. truth mark-blackthorn shadowhunters Cassandra Clare
8a53cdf In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. truth solution Zadie Smith
0d1e0a5 "Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?" The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun." philosophy truth glass dogma game Hermann Hesse
afe8fdc Learning the truth has become my life's love. life truth Dan Brown
2418cde It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves literature life truth wisdom plays Arthur Miller
051cc1b In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. science god truth scripture creation Anonymous
2329643 Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. truth Henry Miller
f127b88 No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. warning sorrow kindness learning sadness strength truth sincerity Haruki Murakami
858a68d What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. reality truth observation Michael Connelly
d242bd2 Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. science truth scientific-method facts knowledge Jules Verne
ebdc978 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. worship inspiration religion god hope life love truth verse reverence thankful kingdom Anonymous
5b806bb ...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. prayer past truth Anne Lamott
7cdb1fd If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by truth innocent-traitor jane-grey Alison Weir
aab3266 ... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. death truth inspirational Lisa Genova
9b62e1c I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. learning meaning life truth Daniel Keyes
30f519a We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. truth Napoleon Hill
b6098d0 The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'. family life love truth concern support fact Mitch Albom
bac2b18 "Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth," and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?" truth Rick Riordan
c65f432 You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. lies honesty truth David Levithan
5561a6e Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. lying truth David Mitchell
46b78ad My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. truth Frank Herbert
c890643 Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. accidents moïra-fowley-doyle staying-alive the-accident-season young-adult inspiration fantasy heartbreak life love truth inspirational life-goes-on hurt unique Moïra Fowley-Doyle
04afb04 Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped. good people truth false-hope Jonathan Safran Foer
a6c0ee5 Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia. life truth inspirational Hlovate
b3e0524 The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. truth Frank Herbert
3c6ed3f A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. truth richard-adams watership-down Richard Adams
e4ea896 But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control. love truth dam trickle walls Paulo Coelho
13d0dbe I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. musician world poetry humanity music songs life truth inspirational lyrics songwriting art connection song-lyrics artist Criss Jami
c69d6ab We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth truth Ray Bradbury
792db1d We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember. truth Laurie Halse Anderson
bcabf73 Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. truth Dodie Smith
e6dc651 re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. [From the preface to Leaves Grass] learning truth wisdom soul Walt Whitman
13bd1ea Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. life truth Philip Roth
a041cd9 "Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person. Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either. myth responsibility morality reason fear love truth atheist-argument christianity-is-immoral christopher-hitchens compulsory divine-dictatorship eternal-punishment great-atheist-argument hitchens hitchslap homo-sapiens immoral-christianity love-your-neighbor supreme-being dawkins indifference human-sacrifice eternal-father totalitarianism debate dictatorship richard-dawkins wishful-thinking belief evidence ethics atheism health intellect atheist redemption crime guilt Christopher Hitchens
9c999c3 Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. time lies reality past truth untruths Jeanette Winterson
20b42fe I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. truth homosexuality shame Alison Bechdel
3237455 The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself. suffering spirit learning life truth perpetual student zen mastery Robert Greene
336ffed My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way faith funny relationship death religion god humor life love truth inspirational friend Ali Shariati
ebdc401 But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. loving-relationship universe satisfaction life truth materialism Mitch Albom
14dc8ef It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face. lies life love truth lady-midnight the-dark-artifices Cassandra Clare
ed6d88c The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. trust truth secrets Lisa Unger
bcb82c5 Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom. god truth Neale Donald Walsch
2e126cd People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. stupidity truth Max Barry
d7d705a I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. truth gemma-doyle libba-bray details Libba Bray
7f02aee At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. terry-pratchett witches life truth inspirational tiffany-aching Terry Pratchett
b18f9ce Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. truth sexing-the-cherry language lie Jeanette Winterson
8115604 The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image. truth wisdom L.J. Smith
ed2cd13 If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true? truth tris tobias Veronica Roth
7f5ddda It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love. truth Rick Riordan
3828992 Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true. truth definitely emphasis exaggeration uncertainty Emma Donoghue
5079775 "I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be." truth significant dorian-havilliard celaena-sardothien name Sarah J. Maas
f4c5e5d Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart. lies truth actions-speak-louder-than-words Sherrilyn Kenyon
f481512 My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. people truth self-care rich Frances Hodgson Burnett
d7cf59f A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. science truth Ursula K. LeGuin
7ba6b8a But my memories are like a fire in winter--whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. --Ditta truth Madeleine L'Engle
c7e0b20 Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache. truth Stephen King
eac2c9a And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. philosophy truth philosopher Will Durant
fbe2723 We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? wrapped-up truth mundane-life looking-back realization Mitch Albom
107236d Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth. lying truth Rick Riordan
fe6db0b "There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous." ( , February 19, 1938)" emotion humanity science truth inspirational Raymond Chandler
a34309f Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself. truth loving sincerity Haruki Murakami
6deee17 After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear. truth myths J.R.R. Tolkien
6311925 The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. fear change love truth day behavior plans conversation waiting tension Paulo Coelho
ca802d4 "My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like You at all right now, and I recoil from most people who believe in You," that might be the most honest thing you've ever said. If you told me you had said to God, "It is all hopeless, and I don't have a clue if You exist, but I could use a hand," it would almost bring tears to my eyes, tears of pride in you, for the courage it takes to get real-really real. It would make me want to sit next to you at the dinner table. So prayer is our sometimes real selves trying to communicate with the Real, with Truth, with the Light. It is us reaching out to be heard, hoping to be found by a light and warmth in the world, instead of darkness and cold. Even mushrooms respond to light - I suppose they blink their mushroomy eyes, like the rest of us. Light reveals us to ourselves, which is not always so great if you find yourself in a big disgusting mess, possibly of your own creation. But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside." light prayer truth real Anne Lamott
70b9dce A lie twice believed is self decieved truth neat Brandon Mull
514255d Why do people respect the package rather than the man? truth Michel de Montaigne
ee2c3a9 Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring. truth sookie-stackhouse on-fiction Charlaine Harris
efd6cf0 Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. truth inspirational Richard Dawkins
52dfbe1 The truth has become an insult. truth hypocrisy political-correctness Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
c123f00 I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. truth rumors Stephen King
45467f1 some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. reality truth soap-opera tv problems movies Chuck Palahniuk
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