#tru

Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#love #okay #trust #love

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#grace #love #truth #love

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#truth #humor

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#labels #promises #reality #silence #soul

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #truth #love

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. ↗

— RuPaul

#money #past #present #sins #thought

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#truth #humor

A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay. "Fuck," he muttered. "Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky." "I heard that, Clayton," Cassandra said as she walked in. "Who the hell forgot to lock the door?" Clay said. "You were the last one in," Elena murmured. "Damn. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#humor #mistrust #humor

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#belief #credibility #fantasy #gullibility #humor

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#learning #love #spirit #surprise #truth