“ When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ”
“ The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. ”
“ I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun. ”
“ When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. ”
“ Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. ”
“ Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ”
“ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ”
“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ”
Mark Twain , Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“ 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. ”
“ The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ”
“ The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ”
“ It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. ”
“ There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. ”
“ So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. ”
“ The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them ”
Thomas Merton , No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“ If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ”
“ No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ”
“ I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. ”
“ Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. ”
“ To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ”
Elizabeth Gilbert , Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“ All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ”
“ Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ”
“ Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. ”
“ It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing. ”
“ I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want. ”
“ When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ”
“ There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ”
“ People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. ”
