"When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand."

Schucman, Helen on peace
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"People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

Springsteen, Bruce on truth   

"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."

Sugarman, Joseph on honesty   

"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Dickens, Charles on villains
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong."

Unknown, Source on kindness
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"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on honesty   

"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Tracy, Brian on integrity
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"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."

Huxley, Aldous on morality   

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love."

Szasz, Thomas on knowledge
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

Cavour, Camillo Benso Conte Di on trust
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on intuition
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"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."

Leacock, Stephen B. on dishonesty   

"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."

Balfour, Arthur James on truth   

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance."

Paley, Babe on trust
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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life."

Conrad, Joseph on trust
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"A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust."

Newman, Nanette on marriage   

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Bell, Lawrence D. on things and little things
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

West, Rebecca on gossip
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"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on honesty   

"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."

Lyly, John on honesty
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"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom."

Gray, John on women
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"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

Rubin, Jerry on men
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"If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times."

Williams, Montel on relationship
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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"

Woolf, Virginia on intimacy   

"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."

Kierkegaard, Søren on adversity
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Peale, Norman Vincent on love
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"The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice."

Bullock, Sandra on relationship
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"Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise."

Lerner, Gerda on relationship
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"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on relationship
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"I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. [On her approach to Mad About You]"

Hunt, Helen on relationship   

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

Ruskin, John on humility
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"The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships."

Carrel, Dr. Alex on prayer   

"Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"

Waitley, Denis on imagination   

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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