Sunday Dinner: What Light We Have

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“There are two ways to be fooled.

One is to believe what isn’t true;

the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

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Soren Kierkegaard

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“Just because you don’t understand it

doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”

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Lemony Snicket

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“If you look for truth,

you may find comfort in the end;

if you look for comfort

you will not get neither comfort or truth

only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin,

and in the end, despair.”

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  C.S. Lewis

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“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts.

Facts can obscure truth.”

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Maya Angelou

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“The truth is not always beautiful,

nor beautiful words the truth.”

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  Lao Tzu

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“If someone is able to show me

that what I think or do is not right,

I will happily change, for I seek the truth,

by which no one was ever truly harmed.

It is the person who continues

in his self-deception and ignorance

who is harmed.”

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  Marcus Aurelius

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“A thinker sees his own actions

as experiments and questions-

-as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him

answers above all.”

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  Friedrich Nietzsche

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is

than to persist in delusion,

however satisfying and reassuring.”

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  Carl Sagan

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2020

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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed,

but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

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Abraham Lincoln

Sunday Dinner: Telling the Truth

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“A lie can travel half way around the world

while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

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Mark Twain

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“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing,

and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

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J.K. Rowling

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

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Oscar Wilde

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“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.”

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William Faulkner

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“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.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“The truth does not change

according to our ability to stomach it.”

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Flannery O’Connor

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“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.”

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2019

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“In a time of deceit

telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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George Orwell

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“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
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Roy T. Bennett