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We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- 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
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
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
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
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
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
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
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
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
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 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 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
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 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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
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
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
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
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
All perception of truth
is the detection of an analogy;
we reason from our hands to our head.
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
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
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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