#true

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#away #become #bolshevism #broken #determined

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#attack #back #bargain #collectively #expression

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#itself #mind #more #pleasure #really

Never assume the obvious is true. ↗

— William Safire

#never #obvious #true

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#keep #true #your #youth

Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

#passions #selfish #true

Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233 ↗

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

#life

It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#intuition #shamanism #supernatural #true-paranormal #experience

Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#growth #happiness #life #love #relationships

There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit. ↗

— Anne Enright

#funny-but-true #family