Life Celebration Quotes
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Self-control, Meditation, Peace
Inspiration / Motivation
Character / Integrity
Knowledge / Truth
Humor / Laughter
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Adrienne Rich
‘False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich
Agatha Christie
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always
curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Alice Walker
Anaïs Nin
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like
a laborious mosaic.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Jameson
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.
Anne Frank
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Barbara Kruger
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
Brené Brown
A documentary film-maker can’t help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
Chloe Zhao
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
Debbie Ford
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
Elena Kagan
The truth does not need to be defended.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Helene Deutsch
Share with a special person in your life:
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
Jane Goodall
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in
the nastiness. And words don’t go away,
they just echo around.
I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc
It’s so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud – because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift – from negative beliefs about the world – to positive beliefs – and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.
Karen Salmansohn
It’s very easy to be judgmental until you know someone’s truth.
Kate Winslet
I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people’s ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.
Kay Kay Menon
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that’s written, anything that’s posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
Keri Hilson
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia Mott
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
Lucy Stone
Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L’Engle
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
Margaret Atwood
When I was young I believed that ‘nonfiction’ meant ‘true.’ But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the same events written in 1995 and they’re very different. There may not be one Truth—there may be several truths—but saying that is
not to say that reality doesn’t exist.
Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher
My truth is that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Marian Keyes
Marie Curie
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point
of view of the direct usefulness of it.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
Mary Astell
The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
Mary Kom
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mary Harris Jones
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Maya Angelou
There’s a world of difference between truth
and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle Obama
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.
Sara Teasdale
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira
Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth –
and truth rewarded me.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Susan Barker
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
he word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
Whitney Houston
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
