#tru

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. ↗

— Bill Russell

#bill-russell #life #truth #life

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night. ↗

— Toba Beta

#baby #brutally #genuinely #kill #life

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#writing #life

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. ↗

— Holly Black

#lies #life #truth #life

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fear #self-acceptance #true-self #life

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#life

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life #truth #young #life

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. ↗

— George Eliot

#people #truth #life

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . ↗

— Ali Shariati

#death #frienship #girls #god #hope

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#book #fun #happiness #life #true