#truth

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

Smartass Disciple: What were you thinking when the truth is revealed unto you? Master of Stupidity: I wasn't thinking. I was having sex when it came to my mind. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #sex #truth #life

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us. ↗

— Os Guinness

#life #mystery #os-guinness #religion #the-call

But what Liberty would remember best was the feel of his own small hand gathered in the warm, comforting grip of the man, those times alone when all of Thatcher’s potent attention was concentrated on his son, as something inside Liberty always insisted, occasionally to contrary evidence that it should be, their trips together, their talks, the information about the sorry state of the world Thatcher shared reluctantly, almost sadly, with his son and heir out of a conviction that I do not enjoy having to tell you these things, but it is important you hear this news, no matter how distasteful, because, unfortunately, it is the truth, whereas it is lies and the promulgation of lies that will make you and the people in your life sick. ↗

— Stephen Wright

#life

A patient man gets all that he waits for. ↗

— William T. LeDent

#life

Who are you if nobody knows your story? ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#life #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth #living #soul #south-asia

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. ↗

— Django Wylie

#jane-austen #moby-dick #pride-and-prejudice #truth #wordplay

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#poetry #truth #love

Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#guys #life #truth #life

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#love #truth #love