Truth & Thoughts...

I always feel that the truth about people and who they really are, and the truth about yourself you hide from, always shows in the end...I realized this in life...that one..i must first be honest with myself..about who I am, my faults and like anyone i have messes i make at times accidently (lifting this veil on truly seeing yourself honestly is a big step, as much of our fog in life, is first having too idealistic view of ourselves really, we think we are perfect and just the world is flawed) ...then there is realizing the truth about others...Life is not this Utopian dream really always, and we get sabotaged, mishandled and unfairly treated at times...When I was married I had family try to take advantage, or a best friend appearing to want my husband & making moves on it also.....So i started to close in more and more, realizing people can be veryyyyy out for themselves only, no matter what a good person you are to them...It really wounded me....And when so much fell apart in my marriage, nobody that I had cared for even was around to give me a hug...So being a good person does not always mean you will be treated nicely and appreciated...

Beauty & truth of spirit, or lack of, always shows in the end in people..No matter how it is decorated, and presented...
I for most part believe in inspiring with light..I have kind of a John Lennon way in this way, of not wanting to encourage battles and fighting, as all that does is lead to a more disturbed world and more disturbance on health and ability to be alive & blooming, happy...I do not understand people that try to inspire with hate, and encourage others to hate people..

Another aspect I enjoyed to living in Switzerland, is that Russian people are accepted & enjoyed there, and some have been there now of several generations...There is even a Law University, connected to one of the best in Moscow there, I almost attended...

they do not have this alliance with the EU constantly urging America to be hateful of Russians....What have Russian people ever truly done to deserve such hatred...There is actually a defined term for it called "Russophobia"...it is very ugly to hate any group of people for no apparent reason...


I have never lived my life this way. Even when I volunteered in Kerala, India, I came to look at some of the children like family and wanted to keep them forever....Good people inspire the good, they do not try to move with hate, and encourage more dissemination of a hateful kind...Lets all remember we are in completely different times also, so to keep propelling this belief that there are "spies," it's just ridiculous and uncultured, and I feel encouraged by uncultured people that have had little travel, life experience and living in other places of the world../It is not 1950's America..It is always better to teach and guide with light that there should be empathy and embracing and caring for others. I just have too much appreciation for any live thing, as it is alive, breathing, and deserving of life and being happy...That is also my naturalist perspective on things :)

Sometimes the little girl that loved so much reading and learning including Sherlock Holmes, and growing up around my tech father, gets this fascination inherently for wanting to crack the code ..and honestly i think a lot of hatred of Russians, were started by western women, especially in America that felt inferior and not as pretty as Russian ones, to encourage men to hate them..And this still goes on to some extent..They try to make western men believe that Russian ladies are just these sexy vixen goldiggers that deserve to be treated aggressively, when in all reality they are some of the most demure ladies of good values, there are in the world, loving and kind..Not all, i have noticed a few disturbing exceptions...But this has always bothered me also, this encouraging to treat Russian ladies aggressively.

Another issue that strikes me deeply is this raping of Native American women that still occurs in America, and they too have more and more of their rights eliminated...it seems any group of minority women often does not get the respect they should, in a western country...Just because a plant is a bit exotic to you and not completely familiar, does not mean it should not be handled gently, loved, protected, like the other plants :) (Even watching Disney's Pocahantas as a child, I noticed how the John Smith character is encouraged to perceive her and handle her more foreign, aloof and aggressive, and she is also presented to be more masculine & like a warrior, instead of a lady that deserves gentle care,...) I know that is where it starts from, being unfamiliar with something...A family member told me how his girlfriend came to study in America, and she would have guys just come up to her and make crude Russian jokes and want to have sex...it is just aggressive, wrong, disturbed and really makes it unsafe even for Russian ladies at times. And I do hope society heals more and becomes healthier, but it will take more & more people to be brave and to stand for the truth for this to occur.


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J.K. Rowling
“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness
George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Mahatma Gandhi
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Aldous Huxley
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
John Lennon
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
George Carlin
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
tags: truth
Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
Winston S. Churchill
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
tags: truth
Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: truth
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
S.E. Hinton
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
William Faulkner
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
Mark Twain
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Flannery O'Connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor
tags: truth
Stephanie Klein
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
Steve Maraboli
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Pablo Picasso
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso
tags: arttruth
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu


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