All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”

“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

“All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.”

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

“Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.”

“He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.”

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment.”

“Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”

“Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.”

“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

“You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.”