Being True Quotes - Page 28

• In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Mean, Mark

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

  Alberto Moravia

  Heart, Hands, Evil

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

  Dan Wells

  Worry, How You Feel, Facts

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• Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Journey, Honor

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mean, Knows

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love... enjoying what you love... and being true to yourself... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?

  Bisco Hatori

  Strong, Mean, Able

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• When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all meaning. I'd lie awake saying the words over and over to myself--'sugar,' 'mirror,' 'whisper,' 'dark.' 'Sister,'" he said softly. "You're my sister." "It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true." "And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Kids, Dark

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

  Charles Bukowski

  Kind

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• In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

  Michael Jackson

  Book, Mean, Hard Work

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• All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Feels, Stills

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• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Time, Past

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

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• A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational, Men, Wind

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)”, p.558

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• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  Laetitia Casta

  Beauty, Real, Feel Good

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• Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Business, Media, May

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Positive, Believe, Mind

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Thinking, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.102, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

  Thomas Nagel

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "The Last Word". Book by Thomas Nagel, 1997.

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• Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

  Lewis Black

  Graduation, Secret, Want

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• Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

  Richard Russo

  Graduation, Be Kind, Tire

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• There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Humble, Light

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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• A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Writing, Poetry

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• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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