truth

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"In today's classroom everybody wins a trophy, even the one kid who actually won. Soon it will be, let's punish that kid for making the other kids feel like losers."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."

"You have the ability to choose your reactions."

"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

"Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns."

"Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay"we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

"People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are."

"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."

"What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever."

"Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people."

"To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness."

"If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by"

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

"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,"he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."

"A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…"

"... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life."