Quotes Tagged "truth"

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.

It's only words... unless they're true.

As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit. I might have some chances in this bitchy life, but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give... my best shot.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

The truth is more important than the facts.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.