truths

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f2dadf1	So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.	gandalf steadfastness truths	J.R.R Tolkien
849b6de	It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...	goodbyes sadness truths	Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene
d797f3c	He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.	growing-up innocence life loss-of-innocence truths youth	Cormac McCarthy
a6e2246	A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.	harp lies song-lyrics sword truths	George R.R. Martin
bffce45	They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.	modern-values priorities truths values wealth-and-virtues wisdom	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
e2e7cde	Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?	idealism illusions truths	Edith Wharton
8bc2ae9	The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.	carpe-diem dead death dream dying existing life life-and-death living reality truths	Arundhati Roy
7eb5a3e	I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.	truths	Larry McMurtry
9761f0c	Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.	humour reading truths	Frances Hodgson Burnett
a937e00	"If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last." --	lovers-sadness truths	Charles Dickens
b972ab7	Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms--his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought--making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share--it smashed to atoms.	imagination invention life truths	Virginia Woolf
2ae45bf	it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.	humor humour jokes truths	G.K. Chesterton
bb766e6	"Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. "Not same," old Jiko would have said. "Not different, either."	books ruth-ozeki truths	Ruth Ozeki
3ec0d1c	Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.	life perspective truths	Jeanette Winterson
f71d7d3	Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.	family oates truths	Joyce Carol Oates
8fe830c	"In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish. "It's only fair," he says."	inspiration life life-lessons truths	Mitch Albom
760c7cc	You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world	going-crazy insanity the-world truths	Suki Kim
4498fcf	I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.	truths	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

f2dadf1

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

gandalf steadfastness truths

J.R.R Tolkien

849b6de

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

goodbyes sadness truths

Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

d797f3c

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

growing-up innocence life loss-of-innocence truths youth

Cormac McCarthy

a6e2246

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

harp lies song-lyrics sword truths

George R.R. Martin

bffce45

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

modern-values priorities truths values wealth-and-virtues wisdom

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

e2e7cde

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

idealism illusions truths

Edith Wharton

8bc2ae9

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

carpe-diem dead death dream dying existing life life-and-death living reality truths

Arundhati Roy

7eb5a3e

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

truths

Larry McMurtry

9761f0c

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

humour reading truths

Frances Hodgson Burnett

a937e00

"If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last." --

lovers-sadness truths

Charles Dickens

b972ab7

Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms--his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought--making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share--it smashed to atoms.

imagination invention life truths

Virginia Woolf

2ae45bf

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

humor humour jokes truths

G.K. Chesterton

bb766e6

"Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. "Not same," old Jiko would have said. "Not different, either."

books ruth-ozeki truths

Ruth Ozeki

3ec0d1c

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

life perspective truths

Jeanette Winterson

f71d7d3

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

family oates truths

Joyce Carol Oates

8fe830c

"In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish. "It's only fair," he says."

inspiration life life-lessons truths

Mitch Albom

760c7cc

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

going-crazy insanity the-world truths

Suki Kim

4498fcf

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

truths

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni