#rut

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. “But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#detachment #emotions #grief #life #love

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

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

#charming #delicious #everything #frightful #horrible

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. ↗

— Veronica Franco

#act #amongst #be the first #cowardice #death

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#truth #wisdom #intelligence

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#discovered #easy #once #point #them

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#advised #been #falsehood #get #i

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. ↗

— Clarence Day

#creeds #discovery #dogma #religion #truth

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#county #generally #happens #keep #our

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #harsh #heard #i