#ruth

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#best #life #love #mistakes #out-of-control

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ↗

— George Orwell

#love

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#joke #joking #tell #truth #way

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

#been #conscience #country #haze #i

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#falsehood #may #only #outraged #silence

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#am #fast #i #i am #looking