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  • #183
    Victor Hugo
    “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: honesty
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  • #184
    Susan Polis Schutz
    “This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
    ― Susan Polis Schutz
    tags: forest, happiness, honesty, inspirational, life, love, nature, power
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  • #185
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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  • #186
    Scott Lynch
    “If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

    [on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
    ― Scott Lynch
    tags: honesty, reviews, twitter
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  • #187
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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
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  • #188
    Truman Capote
    “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
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  • #189
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: death, honesty, life, truth, wisdom
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  • #190
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: honesty, lies, truth
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  • #191
    Plato
    “You should not honor men more than truth.”
    ― Plato
    tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth
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  • #192
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: children, flow, honesty, integrity, moral-courage, river
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  • #193
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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  • #194
    Harper Lee
    “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: integrity
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  • #195
    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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  • #196
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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  • #197
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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  • #198
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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  • #199
    Frederick Douglass
    “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem
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  • #200
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity
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  • #201
    “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
    ― Cheryl Hughes
    tags: cheating, integrity, lying
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  • #202
    Czesław Miłosz
    “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
    860 likes

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  • #203
    Warsan Shire
    “Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: behind, feel, integrity, kind, truth
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  • #204
    Alan Moore
    “My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: freedom, integrity, valerie-page
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  • #205
    “Every flower blooms at its own pace.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achieve, achievement, action, attitude, bloom, blooming, competition, competitive, competiveness, determination, envy, fail, failure, flower, flowers, give-up, giving-up, goal, grow, growth, hard-work, jealous, life-quotes, motivation, pace, patience, persistence, success, successful, time, timing
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  • #206
    Ranata Suzuki
    “There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not.
    You’re just sick of the tunnel.”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: breaking-point, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, breakups, broken, broken-heart, depressed, depressed-quotes, depression, depression-quotes, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, giving-up, heartbreak, heartbreaking, heartbroken, heartbroken-quote, heartbroken-quotes, light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel, loss, loss-of-love, lost-love, love, love-quote, love-quotes-and-sayings, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sadness
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  • #207
    L.R. Knost
    “Strength is not a roar of thunder in the heart.
    That is passion
    Strength is not a process of logic in the mind.
    That is reason.
    Strength is a soul-deep voice that whispers
    'keep going' when we feel like giving up.”
    ― L.R. Knost
    tags: giving-up, life, logic, motivation, passion, perseverance, strength
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  • #208
    “Trying is for everyday, but success has it own time and date. That is why success is no different than a fish. The only way you catch it, is never stop fishing. The more you fish the better your chances. The more you try the better your chances of succeeding.”
    ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
    tags: encouragement, giving-up, inspiration, leader, life-lessons, motivation, philosophy, quotes, success, trying
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  • #209
    Aaron Behr
    “Despite the cloud of my depression and anxiety, I woke up every morning with a choice, give up or trudge through. Trudging sucks. Giving up sucks. Sometimes life comes down to the lesser of two evils.”
    ― Aaron Behr
    tags: anxiety, depression, giving-up, suicide, suicide-prevention
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  • #210
    C.B. Lee
    “She's given up trying to stand out.”
    ― C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
    tags: asian-characters, bisexual-characters, cb-lee, giving-up, introverted, jess-tran, lgbtqia-characters, not-your-sidekick, shyness, standing-out, superhero-fiction
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  • #211
    Paula Hawkins
    “I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.”
    ― Paula Hawkins , The Girl on the Train
    tags: desperation, giving-up, life, loneliness, pain
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  • #212
    C.J. Redwine
    “It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”
    ― C.J. Redwine, Defiance
    tags: defiance, fair, giving-up, hope, life, perseverance
    359 likes



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