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9bcc8ad 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. goodness sadness love truth inspirational victory despair evil Mahatma Gandhi
ff32f14 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. love truth self-deception respect Fyodor Dostoevsky
e1cc00b I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. lying truth self-deception S.E. Hinton
ff8b433 Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. truth Mark Twain
102e067 The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. letting-go motivational life truth inspirational moving-forward forgiveness Steve Maraboli
f80a778 The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. inspiration hope life truth inspirational Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
12b76c3 The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. personality individuality freedom truth inspirational mask revolution Jim MORRISON
27de7ec It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. truth Gabriel García Márquez
21bbaac Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind. mindful gratitude kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life truth inspirational living-life mindfulness Roy T. Bennett
4514e2c Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. action what-is-easy what-is-popular what-is-right inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life truth inspirational act do doing right Roy T. Bennett
96fffb5 The past has no power over the present moment. education life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational Eckhart Tolle
84301c0 A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. religion philosophy truth logic William Blake
25ccfe3 To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. marriage relationships love truth being-loved Elizabeth Gilbert
7fb55c5 Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. honesty truth George R.R. Martin
1ee142e People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. people truth George R.R. Martin
b630990 People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked...The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on...There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. truth rearden victim slave Ayn Rand
58ee22e "All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little--" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET--Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have to believe that, or what's the --" MY POINT EXACTLY." lies truth mercy justice Terry Pratchett
bc319bf Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure. truth Cassandra Clare
b0ce57b There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. truth resilience ruins Sophie Kinsella
036cdcd I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! stars people human humanity self-awareness inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring strength life truth inspirational supernova C. JoyBell C.
cf974b9 Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you! truth clary-fray jace-wayland Cassandra Clare
9b51b25 For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. understanding religion science truth delusion knowledge Carl Sagan
2e07f25 Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will love truth margo-roth-spiegelman John Green
7cca878 It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. spiritual truth inspirational Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
8b7f5cf Life's as kind as you let it be. truth Charles Bukowski
f7150e2 Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. wrong truth majority right-and-wrong Leo Tolstoy
c47e01c Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. equality feminism truth inspirational freedom-of-choice fairness Joss Whedon
3090a71 But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. truth relatable Sylvia Plath
56caa67 The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. truth wisdom George Orwell
777fcdb One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. truth John Green
fe24670 But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. lying truth willful-ignorance Ray Bradbury
bcc27a3 The best lies were always mixed with truth. truth Sarah J. Maas
acc0062 History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. truth James Joyce
890427c I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? truth melinda Laurie Halse Anderson
0fccad4 Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. relationships honesty truth Jane Austen
0f611b9 Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. lies honesty truth inspirational deception Walter Scott
99a96c2 I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. truth Georges Bataille
0d962fb Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. honesty truth seeking existentialism Albert Camus
3c8e009 You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. abolition accomplish slavery hope love truth inspirational heard great-britain try christian peace William Wilberforce
2c40fd1 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 spiritual truth scripture Anonymous
5fad459 You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true. truth Veronica Roth
edbe955 Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. truth presidency wishful-thinking Douglas Adams
0219e6e Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. truth Albert Camus
bd50d47 "I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. silence truth speaking-out revolution Audre Lorde
9757035 I quote others only in order the better to express myself. irony humor truth quoting Michel de Montaigne
51dc133 Nothing is ever certain. lies death truth phrases cruel sad Alice Sebold
0bb5f54 It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. youth truth ideals real nostalgia W. Somerset Maugham
542de7b There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. truth simplicity Leo Tolstoy
66da2bb With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. truth Sara Gruen
36c6bf9 What's done cannot be undone. truth faits-accomplis William Shakespeare
c2e6f2c There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. truth-telling truth on-fiction storytelling Doris May Lessing
4d27241 You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. success life truth inspirational winning failure Jason Mraz
a19cd13 Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now. truth Sue Monk Kidd
ca4ee83 A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. war truth Tim O'Brien
9e0e8b4 This above all: to thine own self be true. truth William Shakespeare
b70475f May Light always surround you new-year courage inspirational-quotes success life truth wisdom inspirational beginnings cheer-up wishes D. Simone
1c6156b For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. human-race life-s-journey the-journey two-wings perfection people humanity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life truth wisdom inspirational living-life flying imperfection flight wisdom-quotes perfect ancient wings journey C. JoyBell C.
2b82bb6 I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. truth wisdom Orson Scott Card
81001bc I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. confidence work music spiritual life truth inspirational power Jason Mraz
1b4b201 The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. truth inspirational zen Robert M. Pirsig
59db54b Does truth have a moral? truth Rick Riordan
a52c301 "The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling." truth zen Robert M. Pirsig
babc3cb "Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried. "You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?" He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said. I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe. I stare up at him, and he stares down at me. For a long moment, we stay that way. Then I pull my hand away and run after Uriah and Lynn and Marlene. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it." love truth Veronica Roth
7e35def "A truth should exist, it should not be used poetry truth Margaret Atwood
4503666 "Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" love truth the-fault-in-our-stars promises John Green
30cedb2 Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. lies truth Khaled Hosseini
2f43cd7 I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. truth social-anxiety Daphne du Maurier
31fbea2 Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right. action inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life truth inspirational startup act do doing start right Roy T. Bennett
52ea533 It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. religion truth inspirational Jiddu Krishnamurti
c82246f It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. jason-mraz imagination dreams life love truth inspirational test Jason Mraz
d8a34b3 Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. death humor truth taxes Margaret Mitchell
881d589 He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. truth innocence horse Mark Helprin
68343c5 If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. truth inspirational Brandon Sanderson
304da54 Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right. action what-is-easy what-is-popular what-is-right inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life truth inspirational startup act do doing start right Roy T. Bennett
f07fd20 Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. want satisfaction truth inspirational who-we-are balance need finding-yourself Brandon Sanderson
25a54d0 What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous. truth John Green
30f77ee "I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. stars truth Natsuki Takaya
59337d6 Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth kindness goodness love truth wisdom inspirational generosity anger knowledge Siddh?rtha Gautama
046f3e8 Life is problems. Living is solving problems. truth meaning-of-life Raymond E. Feist
d4e03c4 You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you. truth Philip Roth
ec82f9a I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. truth wisdom self-destruction self-mutilation Hermann Hesse
4eae0d5 My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. truth Charlaine Harris
b8aafa2 The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. lies truth Holly Black
8c4410f Progress just means bad things happen faster. philosphy humor life truth Terry Pratchett
d8a1c1f I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. . There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day. america humor truth fourth-commandment profane the-lord country sabbath profanity new-hampshire minister church secular superstition Henry David Thoreau
0db9fd8 The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort lying truth Katherine Dunn
374d60f It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. truth holden J.D. Salinger
56d64da Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. truth wisdom noah Simone Elkeles
10cbf48 Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used. lies truth max-brooks world-war-z falsity Max Brooks
6026335 There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. truth falsehood recollection memory Harold Pinter
de83024 Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. happiness life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational forgiveness knowledge Wil Zeus
1798e35 There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors. life philosophy truth wisdom muad-dib legacy Frank Herbert
bcbc632 Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own. truth Salman Rushdie
b3a7693 Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. reality life truth strangeness invention Arthur Conan Doyle
5ce9c0e I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV) live god life love truth cry mercy jesus-christ voice Anonymous
9bc0192 Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect. past spiritual life love truth inspirational healing Jason Mraz
d8736d4 ...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons lying lies truth inspirational Jeanne Birdsall
a1f36cc "I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love." lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires Anne Rice
e77307a What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. truth omissions importance Simone de Beauvoir
2e1ec53 If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship. self-knowledge relationship life love truth inspirational Steve Maraboli
1a03482 Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. words truth salem-falls Jodi Picoult
ab90312 That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't. life philosophy truth wisdom Judy Blume
9ee75db Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is - I repeat it - a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. criticism religion truth Charlotte Brontë
bd026fe To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. life truth spiritual-development soul Oscar Wilde
f36f149 that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. truth inspirational Carlos Ruiz Zafon
caeab61 "People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!" true people life-lessons life truth wisdom inspirational wisdom-quote experience consciousness Anne Frank
32ec10d Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! action new-day victim-mentality history destiny motivational life truth inspirational mediocre victim circumstances greatness today shape power mundane Steve Maraboli
69f4650 The purpose of life is not to be happy--but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. truth inspirational purpose Leo Rosten
70788dc Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. truth stories Albert Camus
faff16c The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. honesty truth Laurell K. Hamilton
b2f4ee5 No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. suicide joy death strength optimism life truth inspirational endurance David Hume
3b84a23 When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. truth George Bernard Shaw
105c4ec It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. humor truth oscar-wilde Oscar Wilde
9582da5 Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing. spirit beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny happiness life truth inspirational belief-quotes life-experience belief beautiful C. JoyBell C.
cca0430 All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. myth story truth children Diane Setterfield
2552534 Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. reality truth Ursula K. Le Guin
e0f06ce The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. truth inspirational Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
240b7c0 Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me. a-w-tozer millenniums earth worship prayer god life truth inspirational million the-truth pay ages done A.W. Tozer
9b37290 I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none. lies good love truth mrs-coulter Philip Pullman
7042db9 It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. truth David Levithan
3043f04 This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. faith truth long-process desperate thread patience Haruki Murakami
5cba1fc I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. beauty truth inspirational lord-of-the-rings Peter Jackson
3966feb Truth is a matter of the imagination. truth Ursula K. Le Guin
429b2fa A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. truth rumors Terry Pratchett
1396b9a To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult. humor love truth inspirational Santosh Kalwar
27afe35 Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. activist beautiful-personatlity beautiful-soul fathers giving-heart helping-out homeless-tent-community jealousy marine-life-conservation medical-missions motivators openess outward-beauty people-of-action real-people rescuers search-and-rescue time true-beauty prayer writing compassion inspiration philosophy truth inspirational empathetic takers communicators perspectives inner-beauty tender givers loving charity mothers community friendships service reflection judgement vanity aging Shannon L. Alder
ff18f95 When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. truth inspirational Benjamin Disraeli
51eb574 "Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals." poetry truth growth soul Kahlil Gibran
8c7561f If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. truth inspirational destruction Carl Sagan
69acdf0 is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism. suffering truth feeling thinking thought Milan Kundera
7e97bbf The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection . love truth great-writers Charles Dickens
d4d5c97 How would your life be different if...You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day...You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity. relationships life love truth inspirational honestly authenticity respect Steve Maraboli
5c214d2 the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other's truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love. relationships love truth gender-stereotypes bell hooks
1e9857f Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will. love truth inspirational V.C. Andrews
e38d28d Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. truth inspirational disagreement Maimonides
05d8459 Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? music humor truth Chuck Palahniuk
e01207e Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man's shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person's truth, adore every person's God, protect every person's rights, preserve every person's dignity, promote every person's interests, provide every person's needs, presume every person's holiness, present every person's greatest gifts, produce every person's blessing, pronounce every person's future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift--yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you...I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS. world god love truth inspirational speak peace Neale Donald Walsch
088c0c7 I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. truth mother Mitch Albom
8a6e22d Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. bible god truth inspirational Anonymous
36ce959 Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. philosophy truth inspirational Frank Herbert
270e514 regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. poem poetry death life love truth regret regrets Charles Bukowski
f56ef08 "Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick." -- philosophy truth Frank Herbert
e57a0f0 Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. truth Orson Scott Card
866e7cf My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. illness words silence feminism women truth speaking-out differences Audre Lorde
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