#tru

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart. ↗

— Stewart Lewis

#beauty

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it. ↗

— Attallah Shabazz

#truth #change

She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#relevant #truth #beauty

What happened to goodbye? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#missing-someone #sad-but-true #unexpected-changes #change

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#philosophy #change

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#true #useless #change

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. ↗

— J. Donald Adams

#friends #library #mood #truth #change

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. ↗

— Albert Camus

#nothing-ever-changes #politics #the-sad-truth #change

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#consequences-truth #lies #change

‎"You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#life #truth #beauty