What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Jack Kornfield

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18

Bible

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

A.J. Dalton

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Phil Callaway

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

C.S. Lewis

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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