"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear."
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"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
"Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night."
",the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do."
"I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!"
"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."
"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."
"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"The naked truth is anything but naked. But it will be soon enough, if I keep giving it alcohol."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."
"Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it."
"The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies."
"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."
"For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them"
"...there is power in self-sacrifice."
"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."