Quotes About Sincerity

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

I don't want friends who are kind without really liking me and I don't want anybody who is kind just so as not to be unpleasant.

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in a doctor's office makes you a doctor. It's more than that. The Good Book says it's about believing and confessing.

The compliment worked. In hushed tones Aunt Victoria confided in Mrs. Oosterman. The older woman soaked up each detail like a dying plant in need of water. Fanny doubted Mrs. Oosterman's sincerity and thought Aunt Victoria's trust badly placed, but she didn't interfere. In fact, she didn't utter another word throughout the remainder of the meal.

She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.

And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.

A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

The more people advertise their love, the more fake it is. Why show it off to the world, when its meant to be confidential and between only the two of you. It just makes people wonder how true your love really is'

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

mean, not the crocodile. Definitely not in the reptile-throwing business, me.

No," Winter grumbled. "Thank you," Qibli said, entirely too sincerely for Winter. "Well," Winter said, "I would have done the same thing for anyone, you know." "I know," Qibli said. "I like that about you.

It's just to say I love you," Mink said shyly.

It was astounding how much more comfortable I felt just being honest. So I kept going.

Tell the kind truth.

What nonsense you do talk, to be sure,' said Stephen. 'What "balls", as you sea-officers say: it is a matter of common observation that a man may be sincerely attached to two women at once – to three, to four, to a very surprising number of women. However,' he said, 'no doubt you know more of these things than I.

You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all—given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

Now listen, Jack, will you? I am somewhat given to lying: my occasions require it from time to time. But I do not choose to have any man alive tell me of it.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

you will have to leave behind your need to appear perfect, and instead be appropriately transparent with others.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

It is only an insincere people that can be accused of hypocrisy.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.