#truth

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#individuality #inspirational #mask #personality #revolution

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#patience #perseverance #seeking #truth #life

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand ↗

— Hayley Williams

#knowing #lesson-on-living #life #paramore #singer

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life

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

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pain #perfect #truthful #words

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read