Truth
Quotes - I lie to myself all the time
“Be
mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Man
is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will
tell you the truth.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“Men
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“I
lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
―
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“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
“Truth
is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities; Truth isn't.”
―
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“The
truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
―
Flannery O'Connor
“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.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Rather
than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“The
things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do
for others remain as your legacy.”
―
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“The
best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“Tell
the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
―
Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
“Art
is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
―
Pablo Picasso
“There
are no facts, only interpretations.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It's
enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
―
Gabriel García Márquez, One hundred years of solitude
“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.”
―
Jim MORRISON
“The
more I see, the less I know for sure.”
―
John Lennon
“All
you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you
know.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“If
you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other
people.”
―
Virginia Woolf
“The
beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the
resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not
love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do
not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
―
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
“There
are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
―
Benjamin Disraeli
“The
past has no power over the present moment.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
“If
you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill
you.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“Everything
we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the
truth.”
―
Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
