Quotes About Sincerity

I knew in the end I'd hurt you, and I never wanted to hurt you. Shelby, I want everything for you." "I believe you. I absolutely do. You couldn't have loved me the way you did if you didn't care, if you weren't sincere. If I'm hurt, it's just because you're so damn hard to give up. And I'm so damn in love with you.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all that she should be. . . . I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool

Exhibía una expresión tan seria a la luz de la luna… Como si de verdad creyese que en el mundo reina la justicia, que a las buenas personas les suceden cosas buenas y que lo contrario solo es la excepción que confirma la regla.

I like you like this," Cassidy said. "Like what?" I asked as I merged onto Eastwood Boulevard. "Talking. You hold back if there are too many people around.

Pastor Wurmbrand once wrote that there were two kinds of Christians: "those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments."15

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Didn't lie give you

the only thing of any use is the truth.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

But in Japan, there are two very specific words to define these selves: tatemae, or the presentation of your public self, and honne, how you really feel.

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.

Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.

My body had become that of an old liar, and my most spontaneous transports had begun to end in calculated maneuverings and delayed deliveries. It was no longer a question of self-esteem or pride; when I thought of breaking up with her, it was not to avoid some sort of discomfiture: it was a question of authenticity. I loved Laura too much to drag myself along on crutches in the wake of our love.

But did he then love God, or was it only the music, as an impudent priest said to him one day in jest, without thinking of the unhappiness which his quip might cause in him? Anybody else would not have paid any attention to it, and would not have changed his mode of living--(so many people put up with not knowing what they think!) But Christophe was cursed with an awkward need for sincerity, which filled him with scruples at every turn. And when scruples came to him they possessed him forever.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.

I don't mind a brother or sister in Christ calling me or any other believer a coward, moron, blind, immoral, demonic, and lacking in grace if it's true and motivated by love.