Truth
Quotes - Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
“Something
inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want
me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love
you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything
about that and neither can you!”
―
Cassandra Clare , City of Ashes
“Truth
never damages a cause that is just.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Who
is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and
accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything
in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the
fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
―
Carl Sagan
“Perhaps
the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
―
Wallace Stevens
“But
when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and
defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in
that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere
else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Nothing
ever happens like you imagine it will”
―
John Green, Paper Towns
“There's
more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
―
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“I
envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
―
Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
“There's
a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Wrong
does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
“1492.
As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year
people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North
America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the
continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply
the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut
“Love
truth, but pardon error.”
―
Voltaire
“Life's
as kind as you let it be.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
“The
best lies were always mixed with truth.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
“Fiction
reveals truth that reality obscures.”
―
Jessamyn West
“If
someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily
change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the
person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Three
things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
―
Gautama Buddha
“Friends
are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
―
Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
“The
essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
―
George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
“When
truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”
―
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“If
the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
―
Terry Goodkind
“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, Fahrenheit 451
“Equality
is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a
necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men
and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the
human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking
something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We
need equality. Kinda now.”
―
Joss Whedon
“Over
the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not
success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and
power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often
comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to
self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us
worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily
perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection.
As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left
alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again
that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to
be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the
greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice
that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core
truth of our existence.”
―
Henri J.M. Nouwen
