truth

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."

"You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.p.32"

"Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall."

"That wasn't love; that was stupidity."

"But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

"What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe."

"It takes guts to love with gusto. Most people love as if they wish they were invisible, and then they wonder why their affections go unnoticed."

"If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?"

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

"Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true."

"All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall."

"Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded."

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true."

"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."