Quotes Tagged "truth"

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

By their actions, they will show you who they are.

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.