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
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
A nation that is afraid to let its people
judge the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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