38 Quotes Tagged: truth-telling

Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.

"Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you."

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.

Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.