Lies - Quotes
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.
Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste - everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.
If you want to know where the power lies, then ask whom you cannot criticize.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person`s point of view and see things from that person`s angle as well as from your own.
Every person is a book with thousands of pages and on each lies an irreparable truth.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they`re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Love is such a little word, but oh the power it holds,
The hearts that it has broken, the lies that it has told...
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person`s character lies in their own hands.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.