Quotes About Honesty

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can't climb a mountain that you pretend isn't there.

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.

you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.

It's okay to like things for literally no other reason than because you like them and not because they are cool or clever or popular.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.

You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn't the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible.

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news

While knowledge without integrity is dangerous, integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?' 'Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.' 'About what?' 'About yourself. And you really need to start trying. To see the truth. Because this matters.

I don't like it." "Why?" "Because it is too painful." "Why is it painful?" "Because it's real.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.

we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.

A quote I heard recently: "Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

as C. S. Lewis once put it, "The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken.

To deny mess is to deny who we are. To see it, to allow it, to forgive it, is to reach a state of what Buddhist and psychologist Tara Brach calls 'radical acceptance', where we can appreciate our so-called flaws or imperfections as a natural part of existence. And then we can exist with openness and honesty, rather than shrink ourselves by trying to shut ourselves away like the contents of a cluttered cupboard. We can, in short, live.

Speaking to a human you cared about, I realised, was so fraught with hidden danger that it was a wonder people bothered speaking at all.