Quotes About Sincerity

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.

io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare forse cinque fra uomini e donne, dieci magari, talvolta financo quindici. E anche questo solo assai di rado. Ma se uno arriva e mi dice che ama tutto il Terzo mondo, o ama l'America Latina, o ama il sesso femminile, quello non è amore ma retorica. Pura demagogia. Slogan. Non siamo nati per amare più di una manciata di persone.

Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)

She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Anaïs, I could stay here all night writing you. I see you before me constantly, with your head down and your long lashes lying on your cheeks. And I feel very humble.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

I have no longer the strength to act what I do not feel.

No wonder I am rarely natural in life. Natural to what, true to which condition of soul, to which layer? How can I be sincere if each moment I must choose between five or six souls?

I am in a fever of ruthless honesty. Anaïs

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!

Mieux vaut une vraie tristesse qu'une fausse joie.

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.

Je suis un être de dialogue ; tout en moi combat et se contredit. Les Mémoires ne sont jamais qu'à demi sincères, si grand que soit le souci de vérité : tout est toujours plus compliqué qu'on ne le dit. Peut-être même approche-t-on de plus près la vérité dans le roman.

Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements—endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart.... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.

On ne peut être à la fois sincère et le paraître.

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Ayn? zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olas? deÄŸil.

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.