#ones

Sticks and stones build strong houses ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#sticks-and-stones #strength-of-character #inspirational

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#fear #hate #honesty #jealousy #problems

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!! ↗

— Abhijeet Sawant

#lies #trust #life

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world ↗

— Sukarno

#imperialism #indonesia #life

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. ↗

— John Fowles

#anyone #except #important #important questions #life

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count. ↗

— Derek Preston

#life #people #truth #life

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#books #honesty #life #wisdom #writers-world

I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Jack Hodgins

#life

Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #life

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar. ↗

— Jenny O'Connell

#life #life-lessons #love #life