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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
— Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
— Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.
— Richelle Mead, Storm Born
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.
— Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
— Matt D. Miller
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
— Anthony de Mello
Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
— Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
— Neil Gaiman
Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.
— Shannon L. Alder
the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off
— Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
— G.K. Chesterton
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
— Maimonides
It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.
— Brittney Ryan, The Legend of Holly Claus
Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.
— Carrie Vaughn
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.p.32 
— Stephen Elliott, Happy Baby
The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.
— Joanne Fluke, Peach Cobbler Murder
Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
victimnoun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
By their actions, they will show you who they are.
— Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
— Gore Vidal, Julian
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
— E.L. Doctorow
You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
— Charlotte Eriksson
There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...
— Israelmore Ayivor
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
— Shannon L. Alder
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
— David Hume, Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
— Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.
— Turcois Ominek
One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
— St. Vincent de Paul
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
— Eduardo Galeano
The truth of the story lies in the details.
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
— Suzy Kassem
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.
— Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.
— Nikki Rowe
I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.
— Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge
The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength
— Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
— Norman Mailer
No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.
— Toba Beta
A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
— Nora Roberts, Sweet Revenge
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
— Niels Bohr
I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf
— David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)
— Lauren Weisberger
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
— Herbert Agar
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
— Daniel Webster
A woman with good shoes i never ugly!
— Coco Chanel
His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.
— Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult
I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
— Cristina Marrero
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
— Michael J. Sullivan
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
— Albert Einstein
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
— Emilio Estevez
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
— Rabindranath Tagore
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
— William Pickens
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough
—  compassionate if we care enough
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
— Thomas Jefferson
It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.
— Bill Gates
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.
— Christopher Hitchens
Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?
— Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
— Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
Purity of heart is what enables us to see.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
— Mercedes Lackey, Changes
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
— Anne Brontë
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
— Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.--City of Ember--
— Jeanne DuPrau
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
— Rupertus Meldenius
Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
— Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don't really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance. People are more likely to look at you and say, "She doesn't need this", "She doesn't need that", "She's already all of this and all of that". But then the truth is that most probably, you are a strong, capable, self-confident person because you built yourself brick-by-brick into that person; because you HAD to BECOME that person; because you had determination enough to make yourself into the image that you knew you needed to become. At the heart of many strong, confident people, is a heart most longing of the things that most others simply take for granted.
— C. JoyBell C.
She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
— Morrissey
Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.
— Suzy Kassem
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
— Dōgen
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
— Kurt Cobain
Eyes shows lies.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen.
— Wilkie Collins, No Name
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
— Richard Yates
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
— Shannon L. Alder
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
— John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.
— Shannon L. Alder
Why do relationships have to be so complicated?
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
The greatest enemy to fear is truth.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.
— John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
— Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
— Bill Russell
They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident negative attitude. The silence that I had always taken for sympathy and regret was a silence born of shame and embarrassment. It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Had I made one step forward out of my own shyness Maxim would have told these things four months, five months ago.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
— Galileo Galilei, Discorsi E Dimostrazioni Matematiche: Intorno a Due Nuoue Scienze, Attenenti Alla Mecanica & I Movimenti Locali
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I think most are too afraid to see the truth.
— Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring
She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.
— Alistair MacLean, Fear is the Key
Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.
— Shannon L. Alder
Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.
— Skyla Madi, Your Guardian Angel
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
— Marcel Proust
Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.
— Tanjlisa Marie
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.
— Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2
The truth brings no man a fortune.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
— Suzy Kassem
Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...
— Cherise Sinclair, Lean on Me
[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)
— Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.
— Karen   White, The Memory of Water
Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."Leo
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight
If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?
— Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback
If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.
— Adriana Trigiani, Brava, Valentine
The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
— Philippa Gregory, The Virgin's Lover
To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.
— Molly Ivins
I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!
— Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones: A Modern Arabic Novel
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
— Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Even things that are true can be proved.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does.
— Shelena Shorts
Because the truth is, it isn't worth loving something if you aren't going to love it all the way.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
— Michael Crichton, State of Fear
Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.
— Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
— John Eldredge, Wild At Heart
When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.
— Amanda Quick, Ravished
hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay ay kasinungalingan na ito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan. 
— Bob Ong, Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
— Kahlil Gibran
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
— René Descartes
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
— Bob Dylan
Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published was "Sì, abbiamo un'anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot – "Yes, we have a soul, but it’s made of lots of tiny robots." And I thought, exactly. That’s the view. Yes, we have a soul, but in what sense? In the sense that our brains, unlike the brains even of dogs and cats and chimpanzees and dolphins, our brains have functional structures that give our brains powers that no other brains have - powers of look-ahead, primarily. We can understand our position in the world, we can see the future, we can understand where we came from. We know that we’re here. No buffalo knows it’s a buffalo, but we jolly well know that we’re members of Homo sapiens, and it’s the knowledge that we have and the can-do, our capacity to think ahead and to reflect and to evaluate and to evaluate our evaluations, and evaluate the grounds for our evaluations.It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one
—  the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.
— Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable 
—  in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
— Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.
— Alyson Noel, Everlasting
Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
That wasn't love
—  that was stupidity.
Never run from the truth. It is always there
—  it never changes – save your energy.
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.
— Richard Pryor, Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences
Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.
— Nicole  Williams, Crash
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
— W.H. Auden
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.
— Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
— William Blake
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
— Albert Einstein
You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.
— Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
— Voltaire
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
— Martin Heidegger
Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!Love, Your Guardian Angel
— Shannon L. Alder
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
— Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
The truth has become an insult.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context.
— Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha
If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
— Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.
— Charles Benoit, You
Fake sUCKs!
— Toba Beta
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
— David Foster Wallace
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
— Jon Stewart
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
— Harlan Ellison
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad
— William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Mecca
Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will never come looking for you. However, you are never to go looking for her sister Love. Love will find you in your own divine timing, when you are ready for her. So don't look, she will come. She always does.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
God is not interested in your art but, your heart.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.
— Christy Leigh Stewart
They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.
— F. Paul Wilson, Healer
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?
— Melody Carlson, Just Another Girl
Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers -- Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world closer together, and not destroy them to divide us further apart. We can pave new roads towards peace simply by understanding other cultures. This can be achieved through traveling, learning other languages, and interacting with others from outside our borders. Only then will one truly discover how we are more alike than different. Never allow language or cultural traditions to come between brothers and sisters. The same way one brother may not like his sister's choice of fashion or hairstyle, he will never hate her for her personal style or music preference. If you judge a man, judge only his heart. And if you should do so, make sure you use the truth in your conscience when weighing one's character. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.
— Anthony Liccione
It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost
What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
— Carl von Clausewitz, On War: Volume 1
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
— Anatole France
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
— Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
— C.P. Snow
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.
— Santosh Kalwar
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
— Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.
— Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
I like you," he said.He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.
— Jenny Downham, You Against Me
And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
— Rachel Ward, Numbers
The perfect killer has no conscience.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.
— Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
— Elizabeth Haydon, The Floating Island
I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
— Angel Wagenstein, Isaac's Torah
Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Dance in the rain, follow the path of lovely lanes, you are what you always wanted to be, so chill out, dear friend!
— Santosh Kalwar
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Nothing but truth is immortal.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Ghosts and Other Lectures
Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don’t think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin’ on himself and start payin’ attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o’ self-indulgence.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
— Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe