#earnestness

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#gullibility #honesty #think

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. ↗

— Marc Webb

#ferment #into #sentimentality

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #does #earnestness #his #man

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#earnestness #life #will #you

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ↗

— Confucius

#constitutes #earnestness #five #generosity #gravity