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Quotes About Sincerity

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~ Douglas Adams
Love is purity.
~ Douglas Clegg
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
~ Douglas Coupland
Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.
~ Douglas Coupland
Exposing hypocrisy doesn't make you a moral person
~ Douglas Coupland
watch an animal, and be reminded of what total integrity looks like.
~ Douglas Green
the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.
~ Douglas Preston
it was never too late for the truth.
~ Douglas Preston
The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.
~ Adyashanti
I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.
~ Adyashanti
Live by truth or suffer. It's that simple.
~ Adyashanti
The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)
~ Adyashanti
If we are being sincere and honest with ourselves, there is an intuitive sense of what we are avoiding. If we can find the capacity to be honest, we'll start to feel in ourselves when we're being called to make effort.
~ Adyashanti
Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)
~ Adyashanti
For simple are the words of truth.
~ Aeschylus
The words of truth are simple.
~ Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
~ Aeschylus
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
~ Aesop
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.
~ Aesop
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
~ Aesop
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
~ African Proverb
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
~ Agatha Christie
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
~ Agatha Christie
Truth is seldom romantic.
~ Agatha Christie