Quotes on truth

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain

“The only truth is music.”

Jack Kerouac

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

George R.R. Martin

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

George Washington

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

Hayley Williams

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

Tim O'Brien

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

Steve Maraboli

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”

Roy T. Bennett

“It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.”

Jason Mraz

“...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick”

Jeanne Birdsall

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

Joseph Campbell

“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Anonymous

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”

Zoë Marriott

“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

Leo Rosten

“Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.”

Roy T. Bennett

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

Terry Pratchett

“There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.”

Kirk Cameron

“... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.”

Lisa Genova

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”

Germany Kent

“Be a true Heart, not a follower.”

Ed Sheeran

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

Jess C Scott

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”

Jess C Scott

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[]”

Siddhārtha Gautama

“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”

Turcois Ominek

“I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.”

Coco J. Ginger

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

E. Lockhart

“Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.”

Nicole Yatsonsky

“regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.”

Charles Bukowski

“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)”

Anonymous

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”

Jess C Scott

“Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”

T.F. Hodge

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

Wendelin Van Draanen

“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Graeme Simsion

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

John Green

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

Charles Bukowski

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”

Jess C Scott

“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

Steve Maraboli

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”

Wil Zeus

“Don't Worry Be Happy”

Meher Baba

“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”

J. A. Konrath

“I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.”

Matt Smith

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”

Shannon L. Alder

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

Aaron Lauritsen
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