All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he’d see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I’d ever done…I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn’t. There is none.”

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll end up miserable.”

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”

“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]”

“It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.”

“A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?”

“I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”

“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”

“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.”

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”

“Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”