Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again.
I will love the sun for it warms my bones;
yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.
I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart;
yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.
I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
- Og Mandino
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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