Truth Quotes - Page 157

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope

Your greatest path of influence is love.

Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.

Raymond Chandler

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

William Saroyan

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.

R. Lewis

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain de Botton

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Carson McCullers

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

William Faulkner

He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

Jackson Burnett

Never submit we are all equals

Face the truth or the truth will face you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.

Alexandra Bogdanovic

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Brittany DeLaBarrera

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Norlito Baclayen

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Christopher Vogler

time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....

Prashant

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

Seth D.

It won't hurt until you feel it.

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

Do you like Rhiannon more than me?" ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth.

Susane Colasanti

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Being truthful is the new beautiful.

We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.

Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now you’re here.What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.

Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth...

Muse

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintiness.I do not bear with me, by any chance,An insult not yet washed away- a conscienceYellow with unpurged bile- an honor frayedTo rags, a set of scruples badly worn.I go caparisoned in gems unseen,Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlandedWith my good name- no figure of a man,But a soul clothed in shining armor, hungWith deeds for decorations, twirling- thus-A bristling wit, and swinging at my sideCourage, and on the stones of this old townMaking the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

the gods play nofavorites.

Charles Bukowski

I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Patricia Briggs

The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after...What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?

Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

Cyc Jouzy

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

I thought I had everything until I found you.

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