truth

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

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

"Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard."

"If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"

"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."

"You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride."

"The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth."

"In wine, there's truth."

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened."

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16"

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

"There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them."

"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you"

"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

"There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context."

"The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth."

"In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger."

"True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past."