#tru

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#integrity #personal-responsibility #truth-telling #relationships

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #city

I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#chapter-one #city-of-lost-souls #clary-fray #jace #mortal-instruments

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #city

Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #city

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #being overwhelmed #frightened #had #high

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fave #true-to-fact #awesome

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#truth #christ

So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth #hurt

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. ↗

— Myra McEntire

#truth #broken