#ruth

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#truth #life

If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #meaning #truth #life

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #lows #nothing #truth #life

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. ↗

— George Eliot

#truth-of-life #life

How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you’re neither good nor great, you can only use fear... ↗

— J.H. Myn

#life #trust #truth #life

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. ↗

— Peter Abelard

#doubting #investigate #investigating #recognize #truth

In no man's land, alien is the queen. ↗

— Toba Beta

#land #life #man #queen #truth

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid... ↗

— Nadège Richards

#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#reading-books #truth-of-life #life

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life