#nest

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#honesty #kindness #family

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. ↗

— Jose Marti

#around #being #child #content #does

- 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth? ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#honestly-held-views #freedom

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself. ↗

— Herta Müller

#honesty #love #friendship

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#lies #stories #truth #women #life