True Life Quotes

“Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.”
― Woo Myung, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living

“When these people, my mother and people like her, came out here it was like leaving a reality; leaving a planet; turning your back. I guess we don’t appreciate it was such a big deal that they may never come back, never see their family again. – John Savić”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

“Europeans the Poles or Balts coming in here … we brought here knowledge with us and our culture with us, but we assimilated … assimilated is not one way, it’s a two-way street. - Fred Ritzkowski, German”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

“I like it! I liked it when man to man no matter whether he is boss or he is ordinary worker, but in meantime they go to the pub, they drink beer together and call by first name. I like that. After few years, I think that Queensland is the best place in Australia … I am Queenslander! – Alex Sucharsky, Ukranian”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

“Pat and Ian have since been to Kalgoorlie with metal detectors, scouring the red dirt in the hope of locating Lisa’s remains. If her clothes had something metal attached then the metal detector just might pick that up. Ian would locate something of interest with the detector then Pat would get down on her hands and knees and dig at the dirt, searching for her buried child.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“As the complexity of the material universe reaches critical mass, a primordial certainty echoes throughout creation in a loud, simultaneous proclamation: We are one!”
― Ron Garan, Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution

“People just didn’t seem interested. Now, with social media, if someone goes missing you hear about it straightaway. I just got to the stage where I was really disillusioned with everything. When they were talking about this new police operation … why couldn’t they have done something like this earlier? None of the men who were around then are probably still alive.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Am I on your mind or out of my mind”
― Syed Sharukh

“La tema, disse don Chisciotte, t'ingombra per modo, che tu né odi, né vedi a dovere; e in verità che uno degli effetti della paura è quello di svolgere i sentimenti, e di presentare le cose diverse affatto da quello che or sono”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Chisciotte della Mancia

“Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences.”
― Maria Erving

“I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn”
― Jane Austen, Austen collection: Pride and prejudice

“It's a blessing to have someone who understands that your anger comes from the pain in your heart.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“ერთხელ მეძლევა სიცოცხლე და საყოველთაო ბედნიერებისთვის ლოდინი არ მსურს. მინდა ჩემი ცხოვრებით ვიცხოვრო.”
― დოსტოევსკი

“A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Truth hurts! Even then that's all that we always want to know.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“HOME is where we want to be”
― Sofia Zakaria, Supposed To… You Are Supposed To Be Who You Are Supposed To Be

“That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time -- that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permissions to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but they still like joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kinds of was. That was what community was. All those layers of understanding.”
― Dashka Slater, The 57 Bus