#sincerity

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity. ↗

— Tony Martin

#fella #his #i #i think #like

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#i #life #many #mine #my life

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#independence #originality #rebellion #sincerity

Sincerity is the way to heaven. ↗

— Mencius

#sincerity #way

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. ↗

— Christian Dior

#creation #expression #natural #revolution #sincerity

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#artists #artists-life #insincerity #pretention #art

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. ↗

— Frances Power Cobbe

#social-change #change

I'm a straightforward guy. I give straight answers to unsolved mysteries, I wait to date hermaphrodites until after they get a sex change, and I never eat funnel cakes before untwisting them. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #sincerity #change

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#effort #fragile #life #regrets #sincerity

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #letters #love-and-friendship #loyalty #pen-pals