Quotes Tagged "truth"

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

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The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. 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 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.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.

Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.

We now live in a world where counter-intuitive bullshitting is valorized, where the pose of argument is more important than the actual pursuit of truth, where clever answers take precedence over profound questions.