#truth

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#romance #truth-inspirational #inspirational

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #feminism #gender #history #hypocrisy

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard. ↗

— Václav Havel

#awareness #inspirational #truth #inspirational

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold! ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#on-fiction #strange #truth #men

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#practicality-for-intellectuals #truth-telling #inspirational

Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens. ↗

— Karen Salmansohn

#inspiration #profound #truth #inspirational

Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil." Richard: "Good will triumph over evil." Ellie: "Liar. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#lie #truth #inspirational

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ↗

— Herman Melville

#truth #inspirational

Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#truth-of-life #inspirational

I know certain truths about life. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#knowledge #life #truth #inspirational