truth

Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

Its not just your truth, Its my bad too...

The Truth burns the heart like a hammer breaking a rock.

I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!

Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

When you are wise, peace shall follow.

Dare to DreamYes, if you can dare to dream.Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.While all else seems to fail.Truth shall forever prevail.(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

Mom often said to me, "I know if you look good, you get special treatment." And then she went a step further: "I don't care what the world says or does. You have to remember that every person is valuable.

He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.