Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
~ Louis Aragon
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
The 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
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
~ Charles Dickens
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
~ Donna Tartt
'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 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
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
~ Greg Anderson
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
~ Penelope Cruz
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
~ Thomas À Kempis
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
~ Michael Jackson
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
~ Arthur Rubinstein
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
~ Carly Fiorina
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
When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.
~ Kerry Washington
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
~ Denis Waitley
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
~ Simon Schama
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
~ Anatole France
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
~ Joseph Conrad
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
~ Franz Boas
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
~ John Jay Chapman
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
~ Muhammad Ali
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
~ Marcus Garvey
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
~ Tim O'brien
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
~ César Chávez
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
~ Horace
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
~ Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
~ Bernie Siegel
