David Levithan Quotes

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I live a very real life.

I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I wanted to show the world the real Pratyusha.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

To be rather than to seem.

Oh its real, its damn real

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.