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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. -- D.T. Suzuki
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them. -- Richard Paul Evans
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. -- Joyce Carol Oates
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself. -- Maria Montessori
By doubting we come at truth. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. -- Maya Angelou
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. -- Jaggi Vasudev
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science -- Mary Baker Eddy
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -- Boris Pasternak
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. -- Lucy Stone
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! -- Maya Angelou
If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life. -- Deepak Chopra
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. -- Denis Waitley
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error -- Mary Baker Eddy
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. -- Alan Brennert
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. -- Cormac McCarthy
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time. -- Bill Watterson
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. -- Dean Koontz
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. -- R.K. Narayan
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. -- Dean Koontz
Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life. -- Leonard Jacobson
Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way. -- James Carlos Blake
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure. -- Don McCullin
In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road totheological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of Godand the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories... -- Christos Yannaras
The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful. -- Kathleen McGowan
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth. -- Joyce Meyer
Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth. -- Franz Boas
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. -- Raoul Vaneigem
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. -- Charles Dickens
Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.' -- Nigel Lythgoe
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. -- Thomas Huxley
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. -- Anthony Bourdain
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life. -- Jet Li
In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father. -- Hope Solo
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. -- Brooks Atkinson
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. -- Thomas Reed
One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. -- Deb Caletti
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. -- Joyce Meyer
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall. -- Len Goodman
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. -- Robert Frost
The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life. -- Abby Wambach
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. -- Jimmy Sangster
Sacrifice life to truth. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Convert life into truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dedicate one's life to truth -- Juvenal
The life of truth is cold. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is life's most precious commodity. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The experiences of life teach truth. -- Harold Klemp
Pick a truth that blesses your life! -- Toba Beta
Life blackens at the contact of truth. -- Paul Valery
Capital T-truth is about life before death. -- David Foster Wallace
Justice is inseparable from truth in human life. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
To lay down one's life for the truth. -- Juvenal
All your lies became truth of my life! -- Balkrishn Sanmotra
truth outlives pain, as the soul does life. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, -- Ben Bradlee
Learning the truth has become my life's love. -- Dan Brown
Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment. -- M Chapman
For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life -- Ronnie James Dio
Memories that you remember are Truth of your life ..... -- Adil Adam Memon
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth). -- Baron de Montesquieu
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. -- Adyashanti
The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life. -- Amy Chua
The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life. -- Lou Ferrigno
The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life -- Lou Ferrigno
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I have a great life, to tell you the truth. -- Shirley MacLaine
The truth can wait, for it lives a long life. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon? -- Andy Mineo
If you live your life in truth, the truth will out. -- John Astin
It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry. -- Joan Bauer
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. -- Stephen King
Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth. -- Khalil Gibran
Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth. -- Lydia Supple
The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'. -- Amit Kalantri
Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short. -- Oprah Winfrey
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth -- Carl Jung
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be... -- Bob Dylan
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. -- Pearl S. Buck
Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. -- Marty Rubin
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. -- Mira Nair
To truth there is no error. To life there is no death. -- Walter Starcke
Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life. -- Ellen Bass
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. -- Mortimer J. Adler
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. -- Mortimer J. Adler
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life -- Virginia Woolf
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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. -- Oscar Wilde
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.' -- Daniel Snyder
Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life. -- Emily Saliers
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse. -- Kate Morton
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life -- Donna Tartt
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. -- Winston Churchill
Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. -- Mollie Marti
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. -- Donna Tartt
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. -- Sorin Cerin
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms. -- Dorothy Richardson
When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth. -- Elaine Stritch
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. -- Pearl S. Buck
When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. -- Therese Benedict
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. -- George Orwell
Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth. -- David Hasselhoff
And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion. -- Tony Robbins
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth. -- Neal Boortz
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. -- George Bernard Shaw
We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. -- John Howard

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