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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. ↗

— Martha Beck

#good #how #matter #may #nothing

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ↗

— Martha Beck

#blind #dead #each #lets #love

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water. ↗

— Martha Beck

#deep #else #know #someone #soon

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#color #documentaries #father #filmmaker #shot

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. ↗

— Martha Beck

#around #bedroom #believe #caring #choosing

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #cannot #clear #conditions #deeply

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#clear #concept #ecology #employment #forced