#tru

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way. ↗

— Tara Brach

#intimacy #kindness #listening #truth #vulnerability

There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#truth-of-life #life

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. ↗

— Alan Watt

#writing #life

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#function #life #mouth #thing-to-ponder #truth

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief. ↗

— Toba Beta

#belief #believe #facts #foundation #life

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ↗

— William Golding

#later-in-life #truth #writing #life

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