#tru

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#struggle

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#health #trembling #struggle

You only want everything you don't have" Matt from The vampire diaries ↗

— L.J. Smith

#struggle

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#joke #life #reality #syd-barrett #truth

the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth #potential

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#discussion #prejudice #truth #prejudice

The name is Salvatore. As in savior. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#struggle

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #city-of-fallen-angels #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #angels

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#judgment #truth #judgment

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#noah #truth #wisdom #expectations