Quotes About Truth

There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped naked in its light. You can't hide from it. You can't close your eyes and wish it away. It's truth; easy truth or unbearable truth, either way, it won't be vanquished. And there you are for all to see, stuck in its merciless glare.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

Is there something I can do? About what? she snapped. About your problem, he persisted. Does anybody's ass need kicking? I can take care of that for you. I kick good ass. Her laughter rang out, sweet and bright and gorgeous. Wow, she said. You'd do that for me? After, what has it been now, a fifteen-minute acquaintance? Twenty, maybe, tops? He considered that, and opened his mouth, and the raw, uncut, uncensored truth just plopped right out. Yeah, he said. I would.

I once came upon a definition of history as 'the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods'. That is particularly true in the case of Richard III, where the normal medieval proclivity for moralizing and partisanship was further complicated by deliberate distortion to serve Tudor political needs.

There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.

And what of those who didn't know him? What happens, too, when all who knew him are dead, when people know only what they've been told? What truth will we be talking about, then?

That may be infidel wisdom, but it is wisdom all the same.

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened," Mark Twain once said.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

in this world is a revolutionary act because true happiness depends upon a revolution in ourselves. It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love. We are liberated by the truth that every single one of us can take the time and pay attention; we

We cultivate mindfulness to help us distinguish the actual experience from the story we tell ourselves.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.