#ruth

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#learning #realisation #truth #life

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #spiritual #truth #life

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place. ↗

— Matt Smith

#doctor-who #geeks #happiness #life #nerds

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#truth-of-life #life

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hope #life #overcome #paradox #toba

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