#honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ↗

— Merry Browne

#elegance #honesty #needs

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#am #any #automatically #difficulty #face

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.”
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#food #funny #honesty #humor #love

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#historians #history #age

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one’s own age. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#honesty #opinion #time #truth #age

No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#forgiveness #hate #honesty #letting-go #revenge

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#honesty #anger

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