#integrity

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#nature #path #transcendence #nature

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#commitment #integrity #respect

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters ↗

— Albert Einstein

#honesty #integrity #trust

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#conscience

The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. ↗

— Juan Mascaró

#compassion #integrity #religion #love

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#honour #integrity #mind #social-norms #truth

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. ↗

— Junius

#integrity #measured #men #professions #their

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#months #perishable #success #summer