You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm. There is nothing but that which we put there ourselves. That is why...

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.

if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I’ve lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it...

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most...

… tried praying for him …but I couldn’t. I just couldn’t. Don’t as me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn’t summon the strength to pray for it.

I’d rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn’t seem worth giving up who you are to...

Life becomes much more easier when we do what we say and when we say what we do. Having courage to be ourselves is a gateway to freedom and happiness.

If I’m to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions that are honorable and honest. I need to focus on others rather than...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising...

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Of course you have passions and talents. Of course you have some purpose in the world. Your emotions are guiding you towards it. Each time you discover something that you like or something that you...

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

I have only known two men’s souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird’s wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.

We either base our ‘confidence’ on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to...

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Life is like an extremely toughest examination and so the passing percentage of its students is abysmally low; a person with his 70 % contributions of the true kind deeds has only cleared it with...

Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral...

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

She laughs an honest laugh… one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don’t belong.

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.

You can’t let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Honesty is always good, except when it’s better to lie.

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what...

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it’s the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.

Glory: I look around at this world you’re so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who’s not crazy? Look around, everyone’s...

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

Wer sich selbst belügt und seine eigenen Lügen anhört, kommt schließlich soweit, dass er keine Wahrheit mehr, weder in sich noch außer sich, zu erkennen vermag […]

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

Nobody ever questioned your honesty. I have never thought of you as less than an honest person.

I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

We’re constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too...

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Am I glowing?””Like a Christmas tree.””Not just the star?”The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. “No. You’re super bright. It’s kind of like looking at the sun.

No. I don’t believe in anything. How many times must I tell you that? I don’t believe in anything anyone; only in Zorba. Not because Zorba is better than the others; not at all, not...

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably. Theres nothing weaker than hiding your vulnerability because,...

You looked like the girl I loved.