#ruth

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ↗

#being-loved #love #marriage #relationships #truth

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. ↗

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#truth #beauty

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#goodness #truth #beauty

War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It brings out imagination. It brings out intelligence. It brings out illumination. The art is worth dying for. The struggle is worth the reward, because even if cause looks futile now, the idea behind it has the power to bring liberation. Although it can be considered a necessary evil, it is a remissible good. War is like art, for it paints a picture of truth. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#truth-telling #war #art

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. ↗

— Alexandra Bogdanovic

#memoir #truth #marriage

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#men

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#men

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure. ↗