#truths

Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#universal-truths #family

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#cynical #humour #love #ugly-truths #life

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#harp #lies #song-lyrics #sword #truths

It's always better to know more rather than less, even when that knowledge complicates your life. ↗

— Pollan

#life

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hearts #inspirational #love #magic #philosophy

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#universal-truths #inspirational

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beyond #deeply #expands #into #itself

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. ↗

— Janet Frame

#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. ↗

— Edward Klein

#discoverable #enough #hard #i #i have learned