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“When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.”

Thinking Way Trying Stories Three Sides Kindness Honest Balance Picks Versions Guts Multiple Honest Truth Sensational Three Ways

Author:Walter Isaacson

“I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.”

Firsts Two Body Belief Compassion Steps Kindness Honest Awareness Regard Wings First Steps Recognizing Kindness And Compassion

Author:Tara Brach

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

Inspirational Kind Motivational Kindness Honest Honesty Ethics Silly Being Honest Be Kind Godly Silliness Being Silly

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.”

People Ifs Kind Said Results Practice Kindness Five Honest Honesty Gains Generosity Persistence Generous Rely Persistent Courtesy Courteous Honest People Disrespected

Author:Confucius

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.”

Littles Bigs Kindness Honest Kissing Deserve

Book:A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

“To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.”

Men Life Kind Littles Whole Kindness Conditions Honest Honesty Tasks Being Honest Be Kind Fortitude Grim Renounce Delicacy Few Friends Capitulation

Book:A Christmas Sermon

Source: A Christmas Sermon

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”

“When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.”

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.”

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Author:Arthur Dobrin

“I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.”

Men Believe I Believe Kindness Honest Ready Right Now Competition I Believe In Every Man Generosity Cheer Courtesy Lost Friendship Lost Friend Good Cheer

Book:Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses

Source: Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses