Truest Quotes - Page 5

• We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.

  Steven Erikson

  Believe, Compassion, Knowing

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• In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Self, Forgotten

  Richard Paul Evans (2002). “The Light of Christmas”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time—made me feel human.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rain, Thinking, Promise

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• Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

  Kristin Hannah

  Black And White, Self, Color

  Kristin Hannah (2010). “Winter Garden”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Love Is, Sublime

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• The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Grace, Forgiving, Faults

  Richard Paul Evans (2008). “Grace: A Novel”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

  James McGreevey

  Change, Christian, Passion

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• The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

  John Podhoretz

  Tactics, Conservative, Republican

  "Conservatives goes wild" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. January 04, 2013.

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• Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Vision, Faces

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art, Nature, Light

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

  Audra McDonald

  Children, War, Thinking

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• Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Responsibility, Exercise

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• Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, World, Paint

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• To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Mother, Father, Successful

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• Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally.

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Hands

  George MacDonald, “Within And Without: Part Iv: A Dramatic Poem”

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• You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Team, Believe, Giving

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• A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

  Jean Cocteau

  Taken, Eye, Angel

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• Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

  Wendell Berry

  Vision, World, Lovers

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

  Nora Roberts

  Heart, Hands, Magic

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Three Sisters Island Trilogy”, p.338, Penguin

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• It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... 

  Stephenie Meyer

  Losing, Enough, Whole Family

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
  Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
  That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Crush, Teaching

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• It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Past, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.476

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• Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Agony

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

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