Truth Quotes

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

Marilyn Monroe

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

Jess C. Scott

"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."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

George Carlin

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

William Faulkner

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Henry David Thoreau

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

Ernest Hemingway

"The past has no power over the present moment."

Eckhart Tolle

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

Ernest Hemingway

"Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something."

Jarod Kintz

"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."

Tim O'Brien

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

Hayley Williams

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

Oscar Wilde

"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."

Lemony Snicket

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."

T.S. Eliot

"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."

Jess C. Scott

"Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world."

Jarod Kintz

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Carl Sagan

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

Søren Kierkegaard

"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."

Jess C. Scott

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

Jess C. Scott

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

Leo Tolstoy

"I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time."What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body?"

Jarod Kintz

"Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering."

Steve Maraboli

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."

Margaret Atwood

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

Jess C. Scott

"What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two."

Jarod Kintz

"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."

Doris Lessing

"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"

Jess C. Scott

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."

Jason Mraz

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

William Wilberforce

"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."

Ray Bradbury

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

Jess C. Scott

"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."

Jason Mraz

"Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you."

Jason Mraz

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

Tim O'Brien

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

Niels Bohr

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Ernest Hemingway

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

Shannon L. Alder

"Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do."

Shannon L. Alder

"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."

Czesław Miłosz

"Between hello and goodbye is I love you."

Jarod Kintz

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

Steve Jobs

"Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident."

Moderata Fonte

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

Jess C. Scott

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"and so it goes away. Puzzling."

Robert M. Pirsig

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."

Voltaire

"May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire."

D. Simone

"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."

Veronica Roth

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

Simone Elkeles

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