Quotes About Truth

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him

Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained. "They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them because they hold important clues." How many times had I said something similar to my own patients? But here I feel as if I'm hearing this for the first time. Don't judge your feelings; notice them. Use them as your map. Don't be afraid of the truth.

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

I know that often people create faulty narratives to make themselves feel better in the moment even though it makes them feel worse over time—and that sometimes, they need somebody else to read between the lines.

The First Confession Allow me to get defensive for a minute. You see, when I told Wendell that everything was just fine until the breakup, I was telling the absolute truth. Or, rather, the truth as I knew it. Which is to say, the truth as I wanted to see it.

we both know in a bone-deep way that there's nothing else to say.

The number of family secrets is just staggering.

Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.

After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.

That's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life.

Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.

I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

My favorite definition of fear is "False Expectations Appearing Real

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

Here's how it works. God transports us to a situation. There is no such thing as happenstance in the life of a child of God. His intent is to use fallible people to give out His infallible truth to a world living in error. He wants to use weak people who love and obey Him to transform the society to which they have been transported. Then, as we tell others, our own lives are changed in the process.

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it? Deep down they're panicking, getting more and more desperate, and the next thing you know, they're hurling themselves into a new relationship.

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

They were such an unlikely couple and there is such power in the relationship that never takes place in a permanent way, the mights romantically overwhelming all that likely would have been truth.

Always get the facts first. You can distort them later.