One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
Your attitudes are slowly shaping you at all times and calling your deepest truths to the surface of your reality.
A Spiritual Warrior looks for the most efficient and effective way to accomplish something -- the most direct way is a living truth.
what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.
He who fears being watched from the abyss will be unable to look into it himself. The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.
Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--
We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.
Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.
Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.
