When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
Manage through the uncertainties.
Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.
Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:
celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.
Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
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
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
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
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
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
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
All perception of truth
is the detection of an analogy;
we reason from our hands to our head.
- Henry David Thoreau
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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