#ruth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth

Stupid dreams.Even the good ones are bad because they remind you how porly reality measures up. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#dreams

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #resilience #truth #age

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#truth #courage

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#employ #fat #i #myself #never

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#often #powerful #strange #truth

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ↗

— Chuck Colson

#cannot #ends #i #illegal #important

We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#truth #violence #writing #dreams

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paradox #truth #wisdom #age