Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so ra…
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.
Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.
It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.
So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.