#rut

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#opportunism #truth #values #life

Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most. ↗

— Katherine Allred

#heartache #truth #love

Phineas leaped to his feet, giving Vanda a appalled look. "Vanda! Why'd you do it?" "What?" Vanda stood. Phineas slapped a hand against his brow. "you can't attack these people jut because you hate Naruto! ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#naruto #vanda #love

All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#truth #humor

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#philosophy #truth #humor

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#manga #minato #naruto #love

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#grace #love #truth #love

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#truth #humor

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#labels #promises #reality #silence #soul

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #truth #love