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People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong! ↗


— Anne Frank


#consciousness #experience #inspirational #life #life-lessons

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. ↗


— Mahatma Gandhi


#complicity #dissent #protest #truth-telling #silence

When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them. ↗


— Amanda Quick


#rumors #truth #gossip

You cannot believe everything you hear ↗


— Jude Morgan


#gossip #lies #truth #gossip

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation. ↗


— Susan Wittig Albert


#truth #gossip

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke. ↗


— Syd Barrett


#joke #life #reality #syd-barrett #truth

the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗


— Sarah Dessen


#truth #potential

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. ↗


— Romain Rolland


#discussion #prejudice #truth #prejudice

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ↗


— J.R.R. Tolkien


#judgment #truth #judgment

If you stop at Nature, she will elude you forever. ↗


— The Marquis de Sade


#nature






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