Quotes About Truth

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA

mentioned earlier that most worry-thoughts have absolutely nothing to do with reality. That's true for criticism, too. In other words, when we criticize something, it usually doesn't have anything to do with the thing we're criticizing. When we blame someone or something, we're doing it because we've hit our Upper Limit and are trying to retard the flow of positive energy. When

Would you be willing to consider that your conflict is not about what you think it's about?

What important feelings am I not letting into my awareness? Where in my life am I not telling the full truth? Where in my life have I not kept my promises? In my relationship with _____________________, what do I need to say or do to feel complete and whole?

Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.

Her skin stretched with struggle and her heart thudding, fighting the truth in what he saw - the perception he showed of her emotions - things she had never meant to reveal, or to feel. I'm not in love

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

La gente sólo cree lo que quiere creer.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die.

Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda.

You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn't have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. "When

You're an unreliable narrator, you know that?' 'Is that like the guy who narrates the telenovela on Jane the Virgin?' 'It's when the person telling you the story is maybe not telling you the entire truth. Sometimes it's because they can't see it themselves. But other times it's because they are trying to deceive you.