- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.
- Good News
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
- Truth Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020