#truths

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies? ↗

— Stephen King

#lies #life #life-experience #truths #experience

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#richelle #richelle-goodrich #truths #understanding #words

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#advice #caring #caring-for-others #companion #constructive-criticism

I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes #love

He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth ↗

— Erich Segal

#universal-truths #love

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#balance

It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars. ↗

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

#cancer

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. ↗

— Edmond About

#contained #france #gone #him #i

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #contemplated #deliver #illuminate #merely