#rut

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real. ↗

— Carrie Vaughn

#life-and-living #truth #truth-of-life #truthful #life

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#benefit-of-the-doubt #everyone #life #truth #world

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself. ↗

— Cory Monteith

#life #philosophy-of-life #truthful #life

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies. ↗

— Anne Rice

#truth #life

It's best to be ruthless with the past. ↗

— Stephen King

#past #ruthless #life

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