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If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

Matt D. Miller

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

Tite Kubo

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

Laurie Halse Anderson

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Romain Rolland

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.

Ann Druyan

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

Dorothy Parker

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Gabriel García Márquez

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Stephen Chbosky

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Ludwig Boltzmann

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Sean Penn

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

B.W. Powe

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Pema Chödrön

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Max Brooks

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Winston S. Churchill

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Bram Stoker

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Gabriel García Márquez

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

Kumikirot ang tyan? Kumikirot ang ulo? Correlation? I therefore conclude na ang utak ay parang tyan, sumasakit kapag walang laman.

Eros S. Atalia

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Lynn Marie Sager

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

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