#truth

As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. ↗

— Mary Roach

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#truth #love

People think that you're all happy because you're young. That kids or young adults have it great and everything is okay just because you're young and there is no problems in your life. That's not true. ↗

— Unknown

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#love #sadness #truth #young #love

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it. ↗

— Jane Kenyon

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#poets #truth #beauty