There are many hidden truths behind a lie

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

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.

I don’t want to see it anymore. It’s lousy. And it’s a cheat. You build it all around something… set yourself on something… and then you don’t want it. Isn’t it too bad the great...

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don’t be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If...

Well, one day all the world’s wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him ‘Lord.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

There are subtle truths buried in every make-believe. You never know where you might find one.

Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you’re no longer their child.

Christ’s humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity”.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked...

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

…I gave you painted air – tears I couldn’t weep – truths I couldn’t speak – all the words that caught in my throat…

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great...

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

the problem in today’s society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them...

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them…It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.

Silence has its own colour to paint the truth

Not when tradition is built upon Truth”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There are at least a million truths that are hidden by just 100 lies.

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

…poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths…

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard...

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own...

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by...

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Seek for truth,you’ll find me;Peek for lies,you’ll blind me

Jesus being the embodiment of the Truth thus makes everything He says ‘essential’ and Eternally valid”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I guess just because you’re family doesn’t mean you have to be friends.

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the...

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman– it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

A strange thing, words. Once they’re said, it’s hard to imagine they’re untrue.

Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men”.~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

Questioning authority doesn’t make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

Music tells no truths.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has…

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.