Truth - Quotes

The truth can both lift up and knock down. - Kirby Larson

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it. - David Weber

The truth is always the truth, you can't change that with an edict. - Robin Hood

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. - George Santayana

The truth is hard to swallow when you’re choking on your pride. - Meat Loaf

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. - St. Augustine

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told. - Philip Moeller

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. - Lao Tzu

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. - Alfred Adler

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

The truth is that the way other people treat us isn’t about us – it’s about them and their own struggles, insecurities, and limitations. You don’t have to allow their judgment to become your truth. - Daniel Koepke

The truth is still truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it. - Unknown

The truth may be puzzling. It may be counter intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consistent with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. - Carl Sagan

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true. - Eiji Yoshikawa

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Life - Quotes

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to. - Roger Zelazny

Life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly a mortal splendour: meteors are not needed less than mountains. - Robinson Jeffers

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. - Christian Nestell

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death. - Federocp Garcoa Lorca

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. - Charles Lindbergh

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. - Elizabeth Lesser

Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want. - Ken Alstad

Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes. - Charles Edward Jerningham

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities. - Arthur Lynch

Life is much the same when it's going well – resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble? - Mary Oliver

Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life. - D. H. Lawrence

Life is not a bed of roses. - English Proverb

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Mind - Quotes

To be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is to apply it. - René Descartes

To develop a complete mind, study the science of art, study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. - Leonardo Da Vinci

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form. - Henry Ford

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. - Alice Walker

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. - Napoleon Hill

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. - Dorthea Brande

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found. - Hui Neng

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. - Mahatma Gandhi

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. - Samuel Hopkins Adams

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind. - Luc de Clappiers

Your mind can be your best friend and your worst enemy. - Marinela Reka

Your mind is what makes everything else work. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. - Arnold Bennett

Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love. - Unknown

Life is...

Life is a moment stolen from eternity. - Eliza Cook

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure. - Kevin Leman

Life is a riddle we die in guessing. - Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes. - Kelly Link

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. - Irvin D. Yalom

Life is a tragedy for those who feel but a comedy for those who think. - Horace Walpole

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. - Stephen King

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. - Tennessee Williams

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know what mark to aim at, how to use the bow – then draw it to the head and let it go! - Henry Van Dyke

Life is an incurable disease. - Abraham Cowley

Life is but a field which we soon travel over, and the vale of eternity presents itself. - Edward Counsel

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Love - Quotes

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. - Anais Nin

In love, you shouldn’t only share hugs and kisses, you should also share problems, you should always tell your partner first no matter what because it’s not healthy for the relationship if your partner will know your problems through other people. - Dianne Grace

When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty. - Jean De La Bruyere

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving. - Fred Rogers

Love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. - John Lennon

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara de Angelis

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting. - Sylvester Stallone

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. - Antoine de Saint-Exuper

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Life is...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. - Vivian Komori

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something. - William Goldman

Life is very interesting … in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. - Drew Barrymore

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - Allen Saunders

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - Allen Saunders

Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else. - Michael Crichton

Life is short. We do not know when we take our last breath. That’s why all sages, philosophers, and wise men urges us to make good use of the time we have.- Unknown

Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper. - Unknown

Life is a banquet of unexpected flavours. Sometimes you like the taste, sometimes you don't. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Life is a continual march towards the grave. - Edward Counsel

Life is a journey we are always travelling; but, unlike most others, seldom care we to reach the end. - Edward Counsel

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Food for Thought

Intuition sets us afire; it is the flame of soul, the flame ignited by our noble aspirations. Using Intuition, we make wise decisions; we are in the right place at the right time; we are creatively inspired; we sense what people mean regardless of the words they choose; we reach out where there is need, and we act rightly to meet the need. - Unknown

Self- control is Strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. don’t allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence. - Morgan Freeman

When your head hits the pillow tonight, remind yourself that you’ve done a good job. You are headed down your path at your own pace, and with every obstacle you are trying your utmost best. Be patient with yourself, and remember that big things are achieved not all at once, but one day at a time. - Unknown

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Life - Quotes

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. - Tony Robbins

Life is a journey, not a destination. - Cliff Nichols

Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. - Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a play. It’s not its length, but its performance that counts. - Seneca

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. - Kevin Kruse

Life is an act at a given moment. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. - Sarah Dessen

Life is full of choices. You make them and hope for the best. - Captain Joseph Sisko

Life is hard by the yard, but by the inch, it’s a cinch. - Gean Gordon

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride. - Unknown

Life is like the moon: now full, now dark. - Polish Proverb

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