#truth

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#best #life #love #mistakes #out-of-control

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ↗

— George Orwell

#love

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#atheist #deny #faith #great #greater

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ↗