#honesty

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back. ↗

— Stephen King

#love #life

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#love

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#change

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#honesty #money #morality #money

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dishonesty #religion #religion

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination. ↗

— Patti Smith

#beauty #honesty #purpose #truth #art

You cannot con an honest man. ↗

— Ally Carter

#heist-society #honesty #kat-bishop #thief #society

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. ↗

— Jane Austen

#honesty #relationships #truth #relationships

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#independent-thought #right