#rut

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. ↗

— James Van Praagh

#consciousness #exist #ghosts #happen #human-experience

All truth is not to be told at all times. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#told #truth #truth is

New roads; new ruts. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#roads #ruts

Truth is what works. ↗

— William James

#truth is #works

...a great man. But...not quite great enough. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#great-men #not-good-enough #the-sad-truth #unfortunate #men

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

Don't Worry Be Happy ↗

— Meher Baba

#life #nonmind-yoga #perfect-masters #poetry #sufi

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#oppression #suppression #truth #courage

I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over.i won't give up on you." " I've given up on you,"he said back,voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #sadness #truth #anger

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#relationships #truth #beauty