#truths

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. ↗

— Kate Morton

#secrets #truths #life

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #life-truths #truth #truth-of-life #life

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#each #goodness #live #lives #love

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. ↗

— William Cowper

#ceremony #depend #eternal #fight #find

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#deception #elevates #host #low #than

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #power #reason #religion #those

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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