#honesty

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#kindness #life

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#difficulty #honesty #humans #love #love

Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought! ↗

— Argha

#honesty #love #man #relationship #truth

Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#deception #dupilicity #honesty #love #relationships

There is no love without respect. There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty. ↗

— Alexandra Elle

#love #respect #love

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#love #relationships #love

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it. ↗

— sunny-drunk

#loss #relationships #truth #relationship

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. ↗

— Truman Capote

#truth #cancer