Lies Quotes
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As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
Naguib Mahfouz
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
Hakuin Ekaku
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If people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves... Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on.. Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility.
Annie Besant
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Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
Haruki Murakami
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When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
Haddon W. Robinson
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Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
Leon Trotsky
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
H. Emilie Cady
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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.
John Turturro
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The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
Lao Tzu
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Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.
Ole Hallesby
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
Lord Byron
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Hermann Hesse
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.
Everett Ruess
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It was all very well, the alethiometer telling her to be truthful, but she knew what would happen if she told the whole truth. She had to tread carefully and just avoid direct lies.
Philip Pullman
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
Jenna Morasca
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A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths
Daisaku Ikeda
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka
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In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
Ashwin Sanghi