truth

"love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another."

"Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth."

"If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."

"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."

"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."

"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment."

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

"Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies,"I said. "So fuck you."

"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."

"She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable."

"What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?"

"I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not."

"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love."

"A party without cake is just a meeting"

"I have a tongue like a rose petal, and when I say I love you, it has the fragrance of truth. My words are my garden, and I’m planting our future."

"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."

"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."