#truths

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech… ↗

— Dan Stevens

#inspirational #quotes #speech #thoughts #truths

Once you want something, everything changes. ↗

— Ally Condie

#change

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ↗

— Howard Barker

#because #enlighten #me #secret #secrets

Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change. ↗

— Keela Sanders

#changes #truth #truths #wisdom #business

If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#lovers-sadness #truths #courage

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#apart #between #cannot #defined #differ

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#truths #death

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#carpe-diem #dead #death #dream #dying

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#genius #novelty #poetry #truth #truths

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths