There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar.
- Topic: Honesty, Truth
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
