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“It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed

“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to him. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career. Candidates are forced to pretend that they are catholics with protestant proclivities, or christians with liberal tendencies, or temperance men who now and then take a glass of wine, or, that although not members of any church their wives are, and that they subscribe liberally to all. The result of all this is that we reward hypocrisy and elect men entirely destitute of real principle; and this will never change until the people become grand enough to allow each other to do their own thinking.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. He should not be compelled to give his opinion as to the inspiration of the bible, the propriety of infant baptism, or the immaculate conception. All these things are private and personal. The people ought to be wise enough to select as their officers men who know something of political affairs, who comprehend the present greatness, and clearly perceive the future grandeur of our country. If we were in a storm at sea, with deck wave-washed and masts strained and bent with storm, and it was necessary to reef the top sail, we certainly would not ask the brave sailor who volunteered to go aloft, what his opinion was on the five points of Calvinism. Our government has nothing to do with religion. It is neither christian nor pagan; it is secular. But as long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. Just so long will the candidates crawl in the dust—hide their opinions, flatter those with whom they differ, pretend to agree with those whom they despise; and just so long will honest men be trampled under foot.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.”
― Evan Roskos, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

“It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries in Marriage: Understanding the Choices That Make or Break Loving Relationships

“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.”
― kandi dougherty

“And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.”
― Steve Goodier

“Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“It makes me sad that so many people feel they're only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do we connect, but by commonality, by mutual understanding and truth in life's experiences? Whether it makes you smile or cringe, a truth spoken is a healing thing.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for ‘integrity�� is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word ‘honesty�� mean? Or ‘Motherland��? Or ‘progress��? Or ‘democracy��? Or ‘beauty��? But even in our self-deception, we become gods.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.”
― Angelica Hopes

“You can never right an intentional wrong.”
― Anoved Sivad , Deviant : An Angel's Private Thoughts

“you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.”
― Turcois Ominek

“Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.”
― Angelica Hopes

“الصدق زي موسمي ترتديه الأكاذيب”
― أنيس منصور, لا حرب في أكتوبر ولا سلام

“Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.”
― Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION EPISODE GUIDE: Details All 178 Episodes with Plot Summaries. Searchable. Companion to DVDs, Blu Ray and Box Set

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― Mahatma Gandhi, Quotes of Gandhi

“-Nobody can force you to smile, she says.
-What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room.
-They can make you show your teeth, but what good is that? Nobody can make you smile against your will.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

“I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it.

And that’s not okay with me.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are different, separate, broken.
Then one day the mad idea escapes the asylum. Most times it’s unplanned. It just tumbles out on the lap of the man sitting next to us on the bus, or it slips sideways into a conversation on line at the Trader Joe’s or it falls out at the kitchen table when your neighbor comes to pick up her cat.
And there is a terrifying moment when it first hits the light of day, where we think, “holy mother of God! What have I done? How could I have been to casual with my crazy ways?��
But the man on the bus just smiles and nods his head, and the casher takes a moment to look us in the eye and the neighbor sits for a cup of tea and together we move into some new agreements that we are all in fact crazy and it’s so much nicer to be out of the closet with it all.”
― Maureen Muldoon

“Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.”
― Warren Gamaliel Harding

“It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.”
― Lori Lesko

“Honesty talks".”
― Behnam Rajabpoor

“If seizures can't stop me, nothing can.”
― L.M. Fields

“I believe in letting the story speak for itself.”
― L.M. Fields

“Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan