“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Genuineness, Honesty
“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”— Chris Harris, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.comTagged: Secrets, vulnerability, Love, Growth, Honesty
“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”— Ryan O’Connell, amazon.comTagged: Growth, Honesty, Self-Acceptance, Life, Change
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Personal Truth, Integrity, Trust, Trusting Yourself
“I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.”— Daniel Radcliffe, books.google.comTagged: Honesty, Hero, Personality
“So please, if you are the kind of person who is honest with the people you love without thinking of how hard the consequences may be on your heart, please don’t change that about yourself. Don’t allow your heart to be hardened into playing games just like everyone else. Don’t let the world fool you…”— Nikita Gill, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Honesty, Honest Love, Pure Love, Your Heart, Keep Looking
“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”— Karen Marie Moning, amazon.comTagged: Confused, Instinct, Honesty, Truth
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”— Craig Ferguson, books.google.comTagged: Truth, Honesty, Right And Wrong
“Be direct. We understand the desire to feel things out, but it saves everybody time and stress when you spell out what you want.”— Alexis Kleinman, huffingtonpost.comTagged: flirting over text, blunt, Honesty
“Confessing and living the truth of who you are in any moment ultimately yields only profound clarity, a deliciously deep abiding joy, and an effortless way of living that isn’t possible when you’re caught up living in the wild fictions of a conflicted, grasping mind.”— Bryan Reeves, amazon.comTagged: Truth About Myself, Honesty, Truth About Me, Let The Pieces Fall, Confess
“Men are used to women skating around their feelings, which is why they can be a little thrown off when we tell them exactly what we’re looking for. But we know what we want and aren’t afraid to let everybody know it. There’s nothing wrong with that, even though they think there is.”— Holly Riordan, thebolde.comTagged: Standards, High Standards, Feelings, blunt, Honesty
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.”— Brené Brown, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Authenticity, strength, Badasses, Courage
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.comTagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Truth, Lies
“Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Life
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.comTagged: Fear, vulnerability, expression, Self-Expression, Honesty
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Honesty, tell the truth, Goodness, Morality
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Truth, Lies