Truth Love Quotes

• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Yoga, Love Is

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, Cease

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Love, Lying, Seeking

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• Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Lying, Blessed, Mouths

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• The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Pain, Suffering

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• Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Meaningful, Grief, Grieving

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• True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Understanding, Gold

  1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.

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• Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

  Ann Voskamp

  Real, Flaws, Stills

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sake, Endeavor, Communicate

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.359

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• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, People

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• Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

  Gangaji

  Love Is, Self, Surrender

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• Love as Thought is Truth.
  Love as Action is Right Conduct.
  Love as Understanding is Peace.
  Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Peace, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 15, 2016

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• Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Truth, Half, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.814, Library of America

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• Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Love, Truth, Honesty

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 04, 2013

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• Truth is more in the process than in the result.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Teacher

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• Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.155, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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