Quotes About Sincerity

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Be true to yourself, to your best self.

I'm going to tell you something about myself. I pay my own way as I go through the world, and I want the privilege of living my own life. I left North Mesa because I couldn't do just that. I have my own code, my own creed, and my own ideas. I try to be true to them, all of them. I hate hypocrisy. I like fair play. I want to live my own life in my own way, and I'm willing to let other people live their lives in their way.

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.

It is why I bother with you, he said. I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.

I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. —William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

My boy! It's really true, you really love hashed brown potatoes? You make me so happy. JACK [without conviction]: Yes, I like them, I adore them!

Deocamdat?, nu avem decât siguranÈ›a unei autenticit??i; aceea a inautenticit??ii noastre. A fi autentic înseamn? a te tr?da fa?? de o sum? infinit? de tr?iri posibile.

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.

Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

should be published

Words without action behind them are about as useful as an empty cup in the hands of a man dying of thirst.