Simple Truths Quotes

• The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

  Bernie Siegel

  Simple, People, Sick

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• She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  "The Lucky One". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2008.

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

  Rebecca West

  Truth, Simple, Men

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.426, Open Road Media

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• People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

  Assata Shakur

  Simple, Thinking, Order

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.215, Zed Books

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• To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.

  Robin Williams

  Simple, Approval, Recognition

  "Fictional character: Andrew Martin". "Bicentennial Man", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Fun, Simple

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• My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Son, Simple, Race

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• The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Simple, Imagination

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Simple, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.28, David M Gross

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• It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Strong, Truth, Simple

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

  Assata Shakur

  Simple, Practice, Knows

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.215, Zed Books

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• No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

  Amish Tripathi

  Simple, Journey, Purpose

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• Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.

  Gerald Causse

  Simple, Anchors, Plain And Simple

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• And simple truth miscalled simplicity

  William Shakespeare

  Learning, Simple, Simplicity

  Sonnet 66

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• The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

  Alex Kozinski

  Stupid, Fall, Gun

  "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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• The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. Truth is God's tracks. It's His trail, His path, but it leads to what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy to know where God's been, but true God chasers are not content just to study God's trail, His truths; they want to know Him. They want to know where He is and what He's doing right now.

  Tommy Tenney

  Simple, Differences, People

  Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

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• What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

  Sarada Devi

  Simple, Men, World

  "Holy Mother" by Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 121), 1982.

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• The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

  Lin Yutang

  Simple, Light, Age

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

  Robert G. Thompson

  Technology, Simple, Truth Is

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

  Robert Jordan

  Believe, Simple, Men

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.383, Macmillan

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• I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hate, Humorous

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• We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Simple, Energy

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