“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the person that dares to tell the Truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
—Plato
It's just another midnight road,
a Nighthouse on my way
where for the sake of needed dreams
I let my body stay.
I have no course to reckon,
no passion fills my soul
but soon the dawn will beckon
and toward it I must go.
I must press on toward the light,
I've long forgotten why
I struggle through immortal night
and tread the darkened sky.
Some True Love's hearth I'm sure awaits,
to warm and make me whole
but I have cast and lost to Fate;
With one untimely roll.
So I'm down another midnight road,
to a Nighthouse on my way
where for the sake of restless dreams
I will let my body stay.
“A bird may love a fish, but where would they build a home together?”
—Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof
“When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“Well, we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell...
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?”
—Billy Joel
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
—Siddhartha Gautama
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”
—Peter McWilliams
“Guilt is always jealous”
—John Ray
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves”
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Once you realize what you are seeing, it's very easy to know when lies are being told to you. Even when the person isn't speaking, their guilt oozes out of them as if willing itself to be revealed. All truth will find its way out. It is the way of things.
Friend. How harsh the destiny
that tears my path off course,
when all in the world my heart could want
is to mingle thoughts with yours...
This twister Fate that let me spin
and blew me bitterly South,
I now take sweet abandon in
like seedcake in my mouth -
And You, this painful joy I find,
this unexpected Gold,
know I must leave this dusty dream
and wake in my home of old.
Oh, friend. How harsh the destiny
that tears my path off course,
when all in the world my heart could want
is to mingle thoughts with yours...
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
—Ouida
“Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose,
and nothin, it ain't nothin honey if it ain't free...”
—Janis Joplin (Kris Kristofferson)
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”
—Albert Einstein
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
—Sandra Carey
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
—Antonio Porchia
“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
—Albert Einstein
“What matters is not what is witty but what is true.”
—Albert Schweitzer
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
—Albert Camus
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
—Adrienne Rich
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
—Gloria Steinem
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
—Mohandas Gandhi
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