#since

I’m a bona fide bon vivant. Tonight, I gave the toast. I told everyone it was spread with butter, but it was actually margarine. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #sincerity #funny

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be. ↗

— Jenny Diski

#belief #minister #religion #sincerity #religion

* Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love #self-control #sincere #love

True kindness ennobles the giver ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#kindness #love #sincerity #love

Sincerity is almost love. ↗

— José Eduardo Agualusa

#sincerity #truth #love

Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us. ↗

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#morality-without-religion #new-sincerity #pop-culture #change

People hate sincerity because it threatens that horrid structure they’re maintaining in their whole social lives. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#sincerity #inspirational

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#another #assumed #dance #dancing #even

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#blind #day #eyes #facts #i

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#angry #cannot #make #others #since