“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf
“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.”
― Franz Kafka
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington
“You can’t lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno
“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.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Do Not Lie to Yourself
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
― Jenny O’Connell, The Book of Luke
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“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
