#truth

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#truth #funny

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#funny #truth #funny

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. ↗

— David Mitchell

#lying #truth #humor

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ... It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand. ↗

— Nelson Algren

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We become that which we love. ↗

— Saint Bridget

#desire #free-will #identity #inspirational #love

The issue is truth, my dear brothers and sisters, and the only way to find truth is through uncompromising self-education toward self-honesty to see the original “real me,” the child of God, in its innocence and potential in contrast to the influence from the other part of me, “the flesh,” with its selfish desires and foolishness. Only in that state of pure honesty are we able to see truth in its complete dimension. Honesty may not be everything, but everything is nothing without honesty. In its final state, honesty is a gift of the Spirit through which the true disciples of Christ ↗

— Elder F. Enzio Busche

#truth #education

A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #love #truth #humor

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#truth #life

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls. ↗

— Sarah McCoy

#religious #truthful #inspirational

A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling. ↗

— William Nsubuga

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