It's a bit like how people hate their own voices on tape, doubly so because we know that those foreign, goofball intonations represent that way that everyone else hears us. In photos, we see ourselves in various states of motion, in different contortions and from uncaring, neutral perspectives. Lens…
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
She doesn't care what the truth is. As long as I do what she says.
— Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Sally Draper, Kiernan Shipka, imdb.com
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
They reminded him that love was real.
We all want to find something that makes sense for us.
You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.
The man who has learned the great truth that the method of God with his world is the method of evolution, of growth, of slow and steady advance, has also learned not to look with contempt upon the past.
Clay Jensen: Every day they live not knowing the truth. They need this, Sheri. Sheri Holland: They do, or you do? Clay Jensen: Sheri, they're hurting. Sheri Holland: How do you know that? Did you go see them? Clay Jensen: That's not the point. You can't keep this secret anymore. Sheri Holland: It's…
— Nathan Louis Jackson, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com
Desires are not real anyway, they are only the wish list reflecting the limits of our imagination.
We've been indoctrinated to believe that it’s immoral to try to change someone else. We’ve been told that love, real love, is about accepting your partner “for who they are." But we’re constantly changing our romantic partners merely by our presence in their day-to-day lives. They react to us. We re…
Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.
Above all, the search after truth and its eager pursuit are peculiar to man.
Although human beings often attempt self-delusion, we cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
A song is a short story. It might have been my buddy Harlan Howard, a writer I met in Nashville in the sixties, who first said a song ain't nothing but three chords and the truth. Well, songs come easy to me. I've written hundreds of them. I see them as little stories that fall out of our lives and…
Truth is—all goodness guarantees ya is an early grave. But the biggest joke of all—the thing that'll sink ya every time is hope. Hope that the world will right itself. That the just will be rewarded and the wicked punished. Oh, once you buy into that horse shit, you're dead in the water. The only wa…
I wanted my own body to be my own body.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.