He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes...
Dunya LookTags: understanding-oneself-and-others truth-of-life truth-inspirational
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: truth evil philosophical good-and-evil sad-but-true truth-of-life
Remember, whoever is funny is king.
Sean "Day 9 " PlottTags: truth-of-life
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.
Pollyanna DarlingTags: opportunity reaction truth-of-life
There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows.
Lord DunsanyTags: humour truth-of-life
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert PikeTags: science inspirational hope truth-of-life
Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you.
Iain BanksTags: truth-of-life
I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.
Doug SolterTags: humor family funny samurai swords truth-of-life
The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)
Jeanette WintersonTags: truth-of-life
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness.
Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.
Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)
Tags: truth-of-life
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