Quotes About Truth

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

She waited until Jeremy's footsteps receded. "I didn't know you had a brother." "Now you do." He continued writing. "Do you have any other siblings?" "No." "Parents?" "I didn't crawl out of Hell, if that's what you are asking.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are," said his father. "That's basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.

Truth and fiction are tangled together in everything human beings do and in every story they tell. Whenever a book claims to be telling the truth, it is wise (as Noah's mother says at one point) to keep asking questions.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself. Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give. --Hester Latterly

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

But the things that Christ taught are still true, of that I am absolutely certain. Meet me at the end of the world when we stand at the abyss...Honor is still worth living or dying for; no matter how tired or hurt or frightened you are, face forward and seek the light.

Lascia che ti dica qualcosa su tua madre, sebbene non abbia mai avuto il piacere d'incontrarla. Conosco quel tipo di persona. Ne ho conosciute per tutta la mia vita. Ottengono la simpatia degli altri grazie alla loro apparente insicurezza. Ma ciò che veramente li motiva è una vanità così immensa che la maggior parte di noi non riuscirebbe neppure a immaginarla. L'insicurezza è semplicemente una maschera.

You only hurt people when you tell them the truth about things that they cannot respect or understand

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth