Quotes About Sincerity

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Given the chance, people will buy from people who care.

How honest do we want to be with ourselves?

Remain pure, not in order to be noble or strong but to be yourself. To give your love is to lose love. Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from yourself.

He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.

In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.

In order to practice sincerely and to develop patience," he says, "you need someone who willfully hurts you.

The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.

If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

This guy—Joe whatever—hasn't even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

Diga-me por que você prefere a mim — pediu — Doente e mesquinha do jeito que eu sou. — Não consigo explicar com exatidão — Na verdade, não saberia explicar nem mesmo parcialmente; era um mistério. Ainda assim, era a verdade, sentia-o dentro de si.

We all show false faces to the world, and a good thing too, for a hundred reasons. We should be consistent with our friends and lovers, so as not to be unkind. But if in your heart you are not kind, it's better to be false, to act kindly even if you don't feel it, because the deed is important and not the reason for it. That kind of falsity is the triumph of our civilization.

Will knew that the man was speaking the truth. But it wasn't a welcome truth. It was heavy and painful

Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras.

truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. • WILLIAM BLAKE •

Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras. William Blake

In a burst of calculated sincerity—miscalculated sincerity, it turns out—I tell one of the girls how the sight of her breasts pressing against her arms had led me to wish I were those arms. And is this so different, I ask, pushing on with the charm, from Romeo, beneath Juliet's balcony, whispering, "See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:/ O! That I were a glove upon that hand,/ That I might touch that cheek." Apparently it is quite different.

People say one thing, adopt a public position, and are then quite different on the inside and privately act in a totally different way. They have an expression for this: 'the shifting sands'—ramál mutaharrika

Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort to be sincere, the worse it went.

As essayist Lewis Hyde points out, self-mocking irony is always Sincerity, with a motive.

If the laughter is canned, so are you.