Quotes About Honesty

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

I don't 'boink' anyone. I fuck

Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence.

I've come to acknowledge the turd".

I had no idea how it knew, but it knew I knew, and I knew it, and there was no point in faking.

I understand now why Barrons was always insisting I stop asking him questions and judge him by his actions alone. It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.

It doesn`t elude me that he didn`t deny it.

Don't hide your mistakes, 'Cause they'll find you, burn you —"Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing.

Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level; admit you're swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd hurtling down the drain toward you, you can't dodge it. I've come to get out of the toilet bowl and become the commode that flushes the shit.

Loyalty stems from what you feel. Or don't.

have access to all our dirty linen.

What you need is some balance in your life: to know when to say no and when to say yes, how to ask for help as easily as you give it, when to let other people live with the consequences of their choices, how to be honest with yourself (always) and forthright and direct with other people (most of the time), and why it's important to give up striving to be perfect and accept your perfectly imperfect self.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Stupid people rarely want to hear the truth.

Alla är inte sanna nog för att höra sanningen, det är det sorgliga. Den kunde vara en bro mellan människa och människa - så länge den är frivillig, ja - så länge den ges som en gåva och tas emot som en gåva. Är det inte underligt att allting mister sitt värde så fort det upphör att vara en gåva - till och med sanningen?

I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.

Really, she had three styles of delivering unpleasant truths--the jab, the hook, and the uppercut. Luther was man enough for the uppercut.

Crucial for man is his attitude toward failure: whether it remains hidden from him and overwhelms him only objectively at the end or whether he perceives it unobscured as the constant limit of his existence; whether he snatches at fantastic solutions and consolations or faces it honestly, in silence before the unfathomable. The way in which man approaches his failure determines what he will become.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.