#truth

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#truth #values #life

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #peace #reality #truth #life

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. ↗

— Toba Beta

#demand #development #knowledge #life #market

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact. ↗

— George Orwell

#totalitarian #truth #life

Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#truth #life

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#truth #truth-tellers #world #life

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #truth #inspirational

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ↗

— Dunya Look

#truth-of-life #understanding-oneself-and-others #inspirational

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#school #system #truth #life

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#dissidents #outcasts #revolutionary-spirit #self-examination #spiritual-transformation