#sty

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. ↗

— Bobbe Sommer

#happiness #modesty #opinion #precondition #regard

If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty! ↗

— John Boyd

#loyalty #loyalty

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#hubris #humble #modesty #ego

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#mistakes #honesty

I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.” That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart. ↗

— Jana Oliver

#denver-beck #jana-oliver #riley-blackthorne #honesty

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth. ↗

— Jessica Warman

#truth #honesty

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#honesty #secrets #honesty

Honesty, while painful at times, was the best thing we could do for each other. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#honesty

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. ↗

— Martin Buber

#hope #insignt #recovery #redemption #recovery

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74 ↗

— Ray A.

#recovery