#be true

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. ↗

— Judy Blume

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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions. ↗

— Jon Brion

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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ↗

— Dan Brown

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ↗

— James T. Farrell

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That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

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