#tru

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#life

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing. André Chevalier ↗

— Nikki Sex

#life-philosophy #truths #life

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

Well, clearly someone you trust isn’t really someone you should be trusting,” she said without thinking, and regretted it when Terrible glanced at her. He did it fast, just a quick cut of his eyes in her direction and then away again, but she saw it. She felt it. It was starting already. She wished she could say she was surprised, wished she hadn’t been waiting for it, expecting it the way she expected rain from black clouds overhead. Nothing in the world was permanent, especially not happiness. She’d always known that. She just wished life would stop proving her right. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#trust #life

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#possession #truth #you-and-me-babe #life

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning. ↗

— Helen DeWitt

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