#truth

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#love

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#errors #man #succession #through #truth

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #new

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #let us #mankind #more #only

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#eternity #go #hate #hell #hell is