False Quotes
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"There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened."
"Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."
"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language."
"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."
"The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth."
"When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'."
"Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?"
"The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy."
"Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all."
"Nothing is expensive when you promise."
"Patriarchy doesn't get yet that 'hope' is a powerful force that drives creativity. Otherwise words like 'false' and 'hope' would never be forced into this unconscious coupling....Hope is not false. And never has been... Rather, hope is part of the often forgotten feminine contribution to the creative process."
"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God."
"Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror."
"...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful."
"You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice."
"To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true."
"I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage."
"Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!"
"Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies."
"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."
"Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false."
"Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you."
"When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty."
"Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner."
"Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure."
"Authenticity is hard to fake"
"It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts."
"Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down."
"The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie."
"Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it."
"These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous."
"I believe that the world is one strong matrix, to get out of it you can't safe somebody unless you make it such way so you both die. I believe then... at that moment you are out of the Matrix, but it's just kind of paradox which is 50-50."
"You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused."
"You can’t patch cracks on a glass house."
"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."
"There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!"
"And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real"
"The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality."
"Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange."
"I hate to tell things in which I don't belive to impress people who are not on my mind so that they see my false image."
"We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity"
"The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines."
"I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub"
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations."
"Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself."
"No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you and something completely opposite be right for someone else."
"False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity."
"People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying."
"Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary."
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