Ann Brashares Quotes

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

Reality is inside the skull.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling