Quotes Tagged "truth"

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed in the moon and breathed out the world.