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Quotes About Sincerity

If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.
~ John Fowles
Come clean Charles, come clean
~ John Fowles
and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
~ John Fowles
The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe—so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.
~ John Fowles
Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.
~ Unknown
I believe in God," he said, truthfully but weakly. "It's easy to say that," she said, her words still slow and soft. "And I don't doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.
~ John Grisham
Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.
~ John Grisham
She confessed that she hoped to be saved
~ John Guy
An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.
~ John Irving
It's a good job to lose!" Jack called after them, but they kept walking. He was so bad as Melody, even Wild Bill Vanvleck would have made him repeat the line. The point was—he wasn't acting. It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character. He had a sister, and he loved her; she'd said she loved him, too. Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns—the real Jack Burns at last.
~ John Irving
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
~ John Keats
My dear girl, I love you ever and ever and without reserve.
~ John Keats
I must confess, that (since I am on the subject) I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
~ John Keats
But even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself, but from some Character in whose soul I now live. I am sure however that this next sentence is from myself—I feel your anxiety, good opinion, and friendship, in the highest degree, and am Yours most sincerely John Keats.
~ John Keats
Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Because it was what you had in your heart that counted.
~ John Knowles
People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.
~ John Lennon
Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
~ John Lennon
The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.
~ David O. Russell
You need emotional content.
~ Bruce Lee
There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.
~ Anonymous
To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret
~ Fela Kuti
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.
~ Radhanath Swami
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
~ Berthe Morisot