Quotes About Truth

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not. Shouldn't the storyteller believe it. The storyteller should tell it.

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things

I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.

People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.

The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world,..They see more than adults, believe in more, are honest and will always, always let you know where you stand.

sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Life is hard, so what? It's hard for everyone, isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar.

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.

She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.

I said at the beginning of this story that this was about a person who finds out who they are. About a person who is unravelled and their core is revealed to all that count. And that all that count are revealed to them. You thought I was talking about Lou Suffern, didn't you? Wrong. I was talking about us all.

Katie: People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell. Why don't you talk to him?

Truth and time always work alongside each other.

Tako je ?udno što ljudi izgledaju sasvim druga?ije kada ih pogledaš u o?i. Najednom kao da su neko drugi. Ako mene pitate, istina je ono što kažu da su o?i ogledalo duše.

That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.