#truth

As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love-kiss #sarah-dessen #the-truth-about-forever #life

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#believe #faith #religion #truth #faith

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't. ↗

— Jenny Han

#scale #truth #love

Because I finally can,” Sebastian said. “You’ve no idea what it’s been like, being around the lot of you these past few days, having to pretend I could stand you. That the sight of you didn’t make me sick. You,” he said to Jace, “every second you’re not panting after your own sister, you’re whining on and on about how your daddy didn’t love you. Well, who could blame him? And you, you stupid bitch”—he turned to Clary—“giving that priceless book away to a half-breed warlock; have you got a single brain cell in that tiny head of yours? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#truthful-in-every-way #love

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#feelings #habit #love #show #truth

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. ↗

— Kris Kristofferson

#end #heart #in the end #laughter #love

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. ↗

— James E. Faust

#integrity #truth-telling #love

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fairness #justice #law #spirit #truth

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#inspirational #responsibility #truth #inspirational

They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation. ↗

— Harry H. Harrison Jr.

#inspirational #truth #inspirational