"The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down."
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"The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down."
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
"For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter."
"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."
"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good."
"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
"I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely."
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."
"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known."
"In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A. I. G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A. I. G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A. I. G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse."
"The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty."
"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy."
"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
"War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed."
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