Quotes About Sincerity

Depict your sorrows and desires, your passing thoughts and beliefs in some kind of beauty- depict all that with heartfelt, quiet, humble sincerity and use to express yourself the things that surround you,the images of your dreams and the objects of your memory. If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.

Almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

depict your sadnesses and desires, passing thoughts and faith in some kind of beauty - depict all this with intense, quiet, humble sincerity and make use of whatever you find about you to express yourself, the images from your dreams and the things in your memory.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The life of truth is cold.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true devotees of God never wear saffron, carry malas (prayer beads), or put on sandalwood. You can't know them unless they want it, and then you can only know them as much as they allow.

Maharaji, he would tell me repeatedly, "Ram Dass, love everyone and tell the truth.

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.