#ruth

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#habits #reasons #stories #the-night-circus #truth

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is. ↗

— Harper Lee

#cynicism

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world. Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you. ↗

— Toba Beta

#ego #humor #life #perspective #point-of-view

Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#forget #little #truth #change

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true. ↗

— Robert Frost

#character #truth #change

The picture of love and truth together is in Jesus. The challenge is to resist the temptation to think in terms of a mixture or recipe: 50% love and 50% truth. The historic creeds affirm Jesus as fully God AND fully human, and likewise with love and truth – Jesus is fully truth and fully love; any less and He ceases to be fully God, and for this reason love and truth must not be separated... ↗

— Michael M. Rose

#jesus-christ #love #truth #love

I LOVE Justin Bieber. I'm A belieber!! ~nd~ I have Beiber Fever!!! Love ( <3 ) You Bieber!! ↗

— Alyiah

#love

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#love #mundane-reality #truth #love

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#truth #love

If only, we could stop taking our job as an OPPORTUNITY and work honestly as a DUTY, this world would be a much better, peaceful and loving place to live in. ↗

— m.ralte

#love