#ruth

The past has no power over the present moment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inspirational #life #philosophy #truth #wisdom

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#gold #growth #like #obtained #truth

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#anything #husband #i #i can #mind

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#answer #asked #control #course #had

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? ↗

— Curt Weldon

#brave #brave soldiers #bureaucrats #chance #deny

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#billie #billie holiday #hear #her #holiday

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. ↗

— Brigham Young

#build #down #ears #enjoy #enter