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#1

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: honesty, integerity

1683 likes

#2

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: honesty, pretense, truthfulness

1397 likes

#3

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness

1452 likes

#4

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying

1140 likes

#5

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
― charles dickens

tags: honesty

1101 likes

#6

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth

1106 likes

#7

“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, Emma

tags: deception, honesty, relationships, truth

1161 likes

#8

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

1211 likes

#9

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

tags: courage, honesty, self-disclosure, truth-telling

1061 likes

#10

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust

1119 likes

#11

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: honesty

973 likes

#12

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#13

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

tags: life, love, passion

3257 likes

#14

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex

2485 likes

#15

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

2321 likes

#16

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

2050 likes

#17

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: loneliness, passion

2234 likes

#18

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: infatuation, love, passion

2094 likes

#19

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: passion

1842 likes

#20

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: love, passion

903 likes

#21

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue

869 likes

#22

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: honesty

802 likes

#23

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

tags: alone, honesty, yates

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#24

“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

tags: honesty

635 likes

#25

“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.

—should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden.

I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact.

I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you.

I want you under me. On your back.

I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough.

I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

You would say it's too soon to feel this way. You would ask how I could be so certain. But some things can't be measured by time. Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast. If only you—

And there it stopped.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

tags: angst, hannah-appleton, love, love-letters, passion, rafe-bowman, romance

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#26

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

tags: enthusiasm, inspirational, passion, passionate-living

805 likes

#27

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: existentialism, passion, struggle

897 likes

#28

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3694 likes