Truth

"I thought I had everything until I found you."

"In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

"Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first."

"The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after... What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?"

"I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul."

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"Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain."

"Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on."

"I carry my adornments on my soul. I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintiness. I do not bear with me, by any chance,An insult not yet washed away- a conscience Yellow with unpurged bile- an honor frayed To rags, a set of scruples badly worn. I go caparisoned in gems unseen,Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlanded With my good name- no figure of a man,But a soul clothed in shining armor, hung With deeds for decorations, twirling- thus-A bristling wit, and swinging at my side Courage, and on the stones of this old town Making the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!"

"As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?"

"I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholeness Is a sickness of our ideas."

"Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web."

"Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth..."

"There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment. No wind whatsoever brought you now. Now you’re here. What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here."

"There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth."

"Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that they’re water?bubbles Growing and bursting."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"Being truthful is the new beautiful."

"A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s human action on the outside world. We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;And the sun is always punctual every day.(5/7/14)"

"We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous."