Truthfulness Quotes (page 107)

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• fear
• heart
• wanting

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin

• time
• little
• love

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little. Anne Lamott

• free
• willfulness
• knowingly

Only when l know, the truth will set me free! Paulo Coelho

• light
• believe
• shine

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light. Vincent Bugliosi

• strong
• sometimes
• equality

Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations, the truth is so mingled with the false that often only instinct can help us to decide among virtuous influences, sometimes equally as strong in one direction as in the other. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

• wellness
• joy
• feeling

When we claim and constantly reclaim the truth of being the chosen ones, we soon discover within ourselves a deep desire to reveal to others their own chosenness. Instead of making us feel that we are better, more precious or valuable than others, our awareness of being chosen opens our eyes to the chosenness of others. That is the great joy of being chosen: the discovery that others are chosen as well. In the house of God there are many mansions. There is a place for everyone - a unique,... Henri Nouwen

• believe
• real
• hero

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. Kurt Vonnegut

• walking
• age
• different

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young. Paul Auster

• real
• truth
• truthful

The crude real will not by itself yield truth. Robert Bresson

• out
• remained
• remaining

Once you have ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle

• lies
• light
• garden

In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick. No other place on earth feels so lush. Sometimes we picture it as an echo of the original Garden of Eden—a realm ancient, serene, and fertile, where pythons slither and jaguars lope. But it is mainly a world of cunning and savage trees. Truant plants will not survive. The meek inherit nothing. Light is a thick yellow vitamin... Diane Ackerman

• patriotism
• patriotic
• thinking

Jews are accused of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it. (...) The priest spells poverty (...) It's in the dogma. Because if they didn't believe they'd go straight to heaven when they die they'd try to live better, at least so I think. (...) I want to see everyone, all creeds and classes having a comfortable tidysized income. I call that patriotism." (526) James Joyce

• world
• worldly
• willed

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be. Nicholas Sparks

• satan
• hand
• sharing

Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do'...He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for busy hands too.' The busy people achieve their full share of mischief in the world, you may rely upon it. What have the people been about, who have been the busiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century or two? No mischief? Charles Dickens

• friends
• friend
• truthful

Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth Samuel Taylor Coleridge