“It is a very awkward thing to try to wear our neighbours' shoes. We pity them if we are pinched; it doesn't strike us that the shoes may just fit their own wearers.”
“Honesty is better than any easy comfort.”
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“Remember that greed, envy, pride, anger, gluttony, laziness, lies, and pride cannot triumph against an intelligent mind, honest heart, and holistic soul who lives with faith, love, humility, patience, temperance, diligence, truthfulness, and generosity.
~Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from Speranza Odyssey Trilogy”
Source: Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
“The fact that you’re relaxed enough with me now to tell me how you’re really feeling is a source of comfort to me. It makes me very happy. I feel like shouting it from the rooftops.”
Source: Kitchen
“Do you seek to know the truth? Do not listen to the words that come from the mouths of others, but rather pay attention to repeated behaviors and cycles for in those repetitious actions patterns are shown and they will tell the truth lips won't reveal. Action is always key when considering the character and what is honesty.”
“It is a hypocrites' world where honesty is a curse. though gentle inside, learn to pretend dangerous.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave.”
Source: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“I think I've done the best I can do at the time and been as honest with myself as I can be and I can sleep good at night knowing that.
- interview w/ MTV 2005”
“Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest?
"Exactly that," said Ferguson.”
Source: A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum
“It has nothing to do with not trusting you. It’s to do with what something becomes once you tell it. It’s like it’s truer. And it’s got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can’t control.”
Source: The Rest of Us Just Live Here