#tru

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

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ↗

— Dōgen

#dogen #truth #zen #zen

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ↗

— George Orwell

#madness

I hate Brooklyn ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#hate #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #new-york-city #bones

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#truth #understanding #paradox

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#paradox