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Quotes About Truth

So here it is. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
~ Shannon Hale
If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
~ Shannon Hale
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
~ Shannon Hale
He used] as English accent, for no apparent reason except that it's perhaps easier to say what's most true when you can pretend you're someone else.
~ Shannon Olson
Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings.
~ Shannon Stewart
Porque ha dicho el que explica la Verdad que todos los peligros aterradores y los incontables tormentos de éste y los otros mundos preceden por igual de pensamiento.
~ Shantideva
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.
~ Shaquille ONeal
I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!
~ Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you've done. When you will not remember who you are or what you've done.
~ Sharon Cameron
Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it.
~ Sharon Cameron
Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.
~ Sharon Cameron
Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't?
~ Sharon Cameron
Sometimes legends can be true.
~ Sharon Cameron
It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.
~ Sharon Cameron
Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.
~ Sharon Cameron
Nadia," she says, very softly. I lean forward, straining to hear. Her expression has changed, drawn, as if in pain. "She's gone," she whispers. "The bed is empty." "Who, Mother?" "Nadia," she says again. "Her book is wrong. It's not Nadia's book." I know Mother. But it was only ever the book that was wrong. Not the daughter. Never the daughter.
~ Sharon Cameron
But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.
~ Sharon Cameron
Reality is the condition we create for ourselves. If one side believes
~ Sharon Cameron
Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the ones most important to accept.
~ Sharon Hinck
The way you think about yourself will become the way you see yourself, whether it's true or false. Eventually, you'll believe what you tell yourself. If you tell yourself negative, distorted statements about yourself, you will act in negative, destructive ways. If you replace the lies with the truth about who you really are, then you will begin to walk, talk, and live like the child of God you already are.
~ Sharon Jaynes
Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
You erred in hiding yourself from yourself," Lute said sternly. "That is never wise. Misdirecting an enemy is merely self-defense.
~ Sharon Lee
Spin is everything. An ethical reporter tries to present all sides of a given issue equally, to give a balanced presentation on which readers can then base their conclusions. A reporter who takes sides—a reporter who manipulates the reader—who lets her own convictions shape the story… That person is no reporter at all, and ought, in fairness to the readers she has misinformed and misled, put down her Bic and her pad and never report again.
~ Sharon Lee
Why are you always right, Captain?" "Now, do you know, my perspective is that I'm often wrong.
~ Sharon Lee