- “Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.” ― Ashly Lorenzana
- “In simplicity there is truth.” ― River Phoenix
- Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles
- “Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
- “Fuck it… That’s really the attitude that keeps a family together, it’s not “we love each other”, it’s just “fuck it, man.” ― Louis C.K.
- There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. Ronald Reagan
- “Truth is the thing that protects me from chasing the stuff that will rather quickly end up chasing me.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- An honest thinker will highlight and confront the most intimidating counterargument. A dishonest thinker will seek out the most ludicrous counterargument and pretend it is the only counterargument. @TheStoicEmperor
- To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do. Bruce Lee
- If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
- “You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.” ― Ashly Lorenzana
- “Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- “Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.’ I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. ‘I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.’ I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. ‘That’s what makes you my favorite.’ He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. ‘Every wicked bit of you.” ― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
- “Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?” ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers – Socrates
- “An odd person but a good one. I am an immensely dense spiritual apparatus springing from Compassion and Honesty. With a clear understanding that it is not my intellectual ability but rather strength of character, sheer tenacity and integrity, that allows me to lift my morale and withstand in dificulties.An odd person but a good one, who believe that being honest about oneselfe and honest in my dealings with others is the only way that I can move beyond games to genuine intimacy and friendship with other people. Unfortunately, Compassion and Honesty are difficult to find.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.” ― Gary Hopkins
- “The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- People who constantly signal how honest they are rarely are actually honest. People who constantly signal how authentic they are rarely are actually authentic. Authentic does not have to constantly remind you that it’s authentic. @LifeMathMoney
- Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. B.C. Forbes
- “Don’t change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you’re wrong.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.” ― Roy Bennett
- You can’t lie to your soul. Irvine Welsh
- “Honest Awareness Of Our Needs Is The Foundation On Which Inspiration Rests”.” ― Venugopal Acharya
- “Never allow anyone to hold the key to your happiness, key to your heart, or key to your dreams. Be in control of your life and build your hopes on things eternal. No one should have the power to manipulate your life, optimism, love, or success.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- “She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her every breath birthed new cosmos and her thoughts were the super moon of the darkest night. Every word was a supernova and every step an inescapable singularity. Her touch though…it was soft.” ― Hubert Martin
- It is a great compliment for an honest person to be mistaken for a crook by a crook. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.” ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. William Shakespeare