“One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.” SaidGamesFeltHonestyEmotionalBarackBatsEmotional Honesty Author:Michelle Obama
“I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.” ThinkingShouldFirstsUseTurnsHonestyEmotionalLoved OnesDistress Author:Peter Kinderman
“I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.” PeopleWantSongFrontsHonestyEmotionalVulnerableEarnestEmotional Honesty Author:Yannis Philippakis
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.” HumansKindDifferentFactsShowsRememberDifficultFictionQualityNovelHonestyEmotionalRecogniseResilientEmpatheticHuman Qualities Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.” WholeWantedLostCompassionHonestyEmotionalBedDown AndWhole LifeGet UpMessMiserableTrust Honesty Author:Shania Twain
“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.” PeopleArtSoulValuesBitsLove IsKindnessHonestyEmotionalPaintingColdMirrorsDeedsIceGesturesSceneryArt Love Author:Lorrie Moore
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” HumansMayDoeReasonFeelingsHuman BeingsHonestyEmotionalCatAbsolutesPetKittiesFunny CatCat LoverCat LoveInspirational CatCute CatKitty CatEmotional Honesty Author:Ernest Hemingway