Truth

"You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter."

"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

"If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet."

"I need to be casual but not too casual. Dressy but not too dressy. I need him to think I just threw on the first thing I found and that I'm not taking this too seriously or overthinking it or even that I was thinking about it at all. Because I'm not. I'm totally not thinking about him, and I don't want him to think I was thinking about him, but I don't want him to think that I'm not thinking about him, because clearly he thought about me enough to ask me out and it would be mean not to be thinking about him at all, so I need just the right amount of thinking, and I'm not sure if that means boots and a skirt or skinny jeans and ballet flats. Help!"

"I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath."

"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."

"Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

"Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe."

"Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer."

"The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults."

"Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!"

"The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter."

"He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed - himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches."

"I don’t need words, I just need you to come back.” - Taryn"

"I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back."

"When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences."

"All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two."

"Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient"

"Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present. But I don’t want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them. What is the present?It’s something relative to the past and the future. It’s a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing. I only want reality, things without the present. I don’t want to include time in my scheme. I don’t want to think about things as present; I want to think of them as things. I don’t want to separate them from themselves, treating them as present. I shouldn’t even treat them as real. I should treat them as nothing. I should see them, only see them;See them till I can’t think about them. See them without time, without space,To see, dispensing with everything but what you see. And this is the science of seeing, which isn’t a science."

"Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date."