#truth

‎Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. ↗

— Plato

#philosophy #truth #love

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy? ↗

— Charles Benoit

#truth #humor

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#enlightenment #humor #music #silence #silent-music

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#humor #reality #truth #humor

The best fiction is true. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#humor #on-fiction #truth #humor

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #loving-relationship #materialism #satisfaction #truth

I don't have to look for love, because I am love. ↗

— Euphoria Godsent

#completeness #confidence #empowerment #euphoria-godsent #fulfillment

All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird. ↗

— George Orwell

#truth #communism

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. ↗

— Buddha Gotama

#deception #evil #lies #truth #deception