#tru

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#often #powerful #strange #truth

Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true. ↗

— Mike Weir

#being #canadian #championship #come #dream

Society, you're a crazy breed. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#music #society #soundtrack #superapple #supertrump

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#cliches #hollywood #see #true #unfortunately

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#hard #i #potential #really #see

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. ↗

— Roger Williams

#antichrist #convert #did #ever #forth

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ↗

— Chuck Colson

#cannot #ends #i #illegal #important

We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#truth #violence #writing #dreams

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#conversation #exemplary #inward #justified #men

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#happiness #life #optimism #struggle #survival