#ruth

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#between #come #even #human #human love

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. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#against #avoid #direction #gossip #impeccable

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. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#any #bullets #deficit #federal #followed

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#age

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#always #before #down #speak #think

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#charms #i #ignorant #into #introducing

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #beyond #end #express #eyes

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ↗

— Chanakya

#bitter #bitter truth #every #friendship #self-interest