#rut

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #truth #universe #way-of-life #life

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you? And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok? ↗

— The Script

#girls #gone #heartbreak #left-alone #life

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. ↗

— Yann Martel

#mankind #philosophy #truth #life

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#extraordinary #life #ordinary #truth #life

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#hopeless #life #mistakes #pain #truth

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth. ↗

— Jackie Kessler

#life #social-integrity #truths #life

When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#truth #wisdom #youth #life

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#illusion #life #truth #life

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. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#lies #life #schizophrenia #truth #life

When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #life #sky #space #star