#ruth

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#believe #faith #religion #truth #faith

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't. ↗

— Jenny Han

#scale #truth #love

Because I finally can,” Sebastian said. “You’ve no idea what it’s been like, being around the lot of you these past few days, having to pretend I could stand you. That the sight of you didn’t make me sick. You,” he said to Jace, “every second you’re not panting after your own sister, you’re whining on and on about how your daddy didn’t love you. Well, who could blame him? And you, you stupid bitch”—he turned to Clary—“giving that priceless book away to a half-breed warlock; have you got a single brain cell in that tiny head of yours? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#truthful-in-every-way #love

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#fear #hunting #prey #truth #love

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. ↗

— John Locke

#love

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#kindness #learning #sadness #sincerity #sorrow

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mother #truth #love

This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me. - Tristan Carruthers - ↗

— Elizabeth Chandler

#love

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#honesty #relationships #truth #relationships

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#lewis #misery #sad #truth #sad