The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
E'yen A. GardnerStichwörter: inspirational truth mask spiritual-life
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: truth
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew PearlStichwörter: truth reading books literature fiction
The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.
Toba BetaStichwörter: life truth people random universe secret interaction mystery probability coincidence define pattern formulation obsolete
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.
L.J. SmithStichwörter: wisdom inspirational truth love
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.
Nikolai GogolStichwörter: truth
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: truth
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