#tru

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#truth #love

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#self #true-self #love

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#living #patience #questioning #truth #love

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#distrust #love #silence #love

Do you want this to be a love story? ↗

— Jenny Downham

#sad #tom #truth #love

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #love

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#truth #love

It’s not how much you paid, but how much it would cost to replace it that’s important. What is the price of love? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#true #love

Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren’t, they’re the ones who are the worst off. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #truthful #life

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #irrationality #nirvana #reason #society