Top 1200 Truth Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

I have a responsibility to tell the truth. The truth about what we`ve done, and what we`ll do.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

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

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.