Quotes About Truth

Stay true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Reality: What a concept!

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?