#honesty

I have striven never to betray myself ↗

— Jude Morgan

#honesty #love #love

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#drug-addiction #honesty #longing #love #loving

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#love

Most certainly not. Why face this with honesty and directness? It is so much more fun to dance around the truth, dodge the reality of the situation, which is that you are in love with this man, you share some kind of unhappy past with him...and that he has feelings for you, as well. Why would you ever wish to deal with that head on? ↗

— Jess Michaels

#love

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#honesty #truth #men

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#humanity #self-worth #social-mores #hurt

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. ↗

— Myra McEntire

#truth #broken

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#truth #youth #youth

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#truth-telling #writing #logic