#ruth

What you've called "manipulated truth". All truth is manipulated, because the universe is chaotic. What we divine from it is the superimposition of some kind of order, whether it's religion, superstition, story and art, literature, science - all of them are an attempt to keep the wolf from the door. And that wolf is chaos. ↗

— -Unknown

#truth #art

And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I'm doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven...my heart is all a lump of grief. ↗

— Irmgard Keun

#art

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count. ↗

— Derek Preston

#life #people #truth #life

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#life #media #relationship #truth #life

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid. ↗

— Su-Mari Diedericks

#truth-of-life #unpopular #unwanted #life

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #life-truths #truth #truth-of-life #life

Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth ↗

— uzair safi

#reality #truth #wish #life

The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else. ↗

— Martin Lloyd Jones

#life

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be. ↗

— Knight of the woeful countenance

#dox-quiote #madness #man-of-la-mancha #perception #reality