#sincerity

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

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Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. ↗

— Mencius

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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The secret of success is sincerity. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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