Quotes About Truth

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

What we see is not always what exists.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

I only invoked what you already knew.

there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Truth resides where there is faith.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

What's the world's greatest lie? the boy asked, completely surprised. It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.