Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

The truth is what hurts

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

Truth can hurt so very much.

My mouth blooms like a cut.

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

The life of truth is cold.