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.
|
|
steadfastness
gandalf
truths
|
J.R.R Tolkien |
849b6de
|
It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...
|
|
sadness
goodbyes
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.
|
|
youth
life
loss-of-innocence
truths
growing-up
innocence
|
Cormac McCarthy |
a6e2246
|
A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
|
|
lies
harp
truths
song-lyrics
sword
|
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.
|
|
wisdom
priorities
wealth-and-virtues
modern-values
truths
values
|
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.
|
|
dream
reality
living
death
life
existing
truths
carpe-diem
life-and-death
dead
dying
|
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
life
truths
invention
|
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.
|
|
humour
humor
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 |
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 |
3ec0d1c
|
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
|
|
life
truths
perspective
|
Jeanette Winterson |
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-lessons
life
truths
|
Mitch Albom |
760c7cc
|
You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world
|
|
going-crazy
truths
the-world
insanity
|
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 |