Honesty Quotes
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"You can't lie to your soul."
"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
"[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar."
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."
"The human body is the best work of art."
"I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?"
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."
"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."
"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."
"Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another."
"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken."
"Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians."
"I remember her words about remembering my words, and that’s when it hit me: the quickest way to scalpel open a heart is with a declaration of love."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."
"Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one."
"Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong."
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
"The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies."
"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
"When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret."
"She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert."
"Please, touch me, I pray."
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."
"Hypocrites get offended by the truth."
"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."
"Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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