truth

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,"Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick."

"Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself."

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."

"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."

"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."

"Money is not equal for all people. A strong personal brand adds more lift and leverage. One dollar from me may buy a soda from a car dealership, but one dollar from Justin Bieber may get him a Ferrari. And they'd pay him to drive away."

"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength"

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him."

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

"For those who like that sort of thing,"said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like."

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

"I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!"

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."