The Truth Quotes

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

You are not easily forgotten.

He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.