“...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
“Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.”
“If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.”
“But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?”
Source: Strangers In Another Country
“Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,
that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.”
“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“The easy truth is as much a lie as any.”
Source: Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness