#hon

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ↗

— Simone Weil

#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #art

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#life

The best of all lost arts is honesty ↗

— Mark Twain

#honesty #integerity #purity-of-heart #art

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty #courage #honor #ignorance #money

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #politics #art

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. ↗

— Richard Armour

#hang-ups #i #known #none #suffered

Trust me when I tell you the zebra is real! Somewhere, the zebra is dancing. ↗

— The Art of Racing in the Rain

#art

The human body is the best work of art. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#beauty #body #body-image #dancer #desire

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#creature #dangerous #delicate #destroyed #empty