#t

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#pessimism #true

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#books #fiction #read #reading #stories

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing #writing-advice #true

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-improvement #true

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#sarah-dessen #true

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#true

You never cared that I was your sister before.” “Didn’t I?” His black eyes flicked up and down her. “Our father’s dead,” he said. “There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #sebastian-verlac #chance

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #sadness #people

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#misanthropy #people

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance