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“do
not ever
be
afraid to tell me
who you are.
i am going to find
out
eventually.

–â€� blunt”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“Folklores are inspired by truth but coloured with fantasy.”
― Niranjan Mudholkar, The Kingdom of God

“Truthful inconvenience is one of my specialties.”
― Steven Magee

“A mirror is fragile but not afraid of showing the truth.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful, Even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true, Even if the truth is ugly.

Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior, Without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out, without first judging what he sees in the mirror”
― Marina G. Roussou

“The problem with people who are self-centered is that they never shift their focus long enough to understand or care about the needs of those around them.”
― Germany Kent

“If you want to confuse somebody tell them the truth, because there’s a really good chance that that’s the one thing they didn’t anticipate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not hard to spot an honest man. He’s the one that no one wants to talk to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This looked to me like another one of those fork-in-the-road cases in which I had to choose between one of two seemingly essential but mutually exclusive options: 1) being radically truthful with each other including probing to bring our problems and weaknesses to the surface so we could deal with them forthrightly and 2) having happy and satisfied employees. And it reminded me that when faced with the choice between two things you need that are seemingly at odds, go slowly to figure out how you can have as much of both as possible. There is almost always a good path that you just haven’t figured out yet, so look for it until you find it rather than settle for the choice that is then apparent to you.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Once you believe a lie to be the truth, you are now in the rather unfavorable position of having to change every truth that you encounter in order to support the lie that you now believe. And given the wildly proliferating progression that now ensues due to the fact that you must do this for every lie that you create, it becomes exceedingly apparent why the truth might be painful, but why it’s a whole lot easier.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I'm an open book, but I am still a hardcover.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Ask direct questions.”
― Steven Magee

“Be noble.”
― Steven Magee

“There is nothing more valuable
but the Real,
nothing worth more but the Truth.
Stay true to yourself and remember,
we are not meant to find out who we are;
we are to Create ourselves,
to each day take a step in the direction
to who we want to be.”
― Petra Poje - Keeper of The Eye

“All your worst mysteries or blissful moments happen because of truthfulness ... In balance, being always truthful, as a resolve, tends to pull you towards the latter consistently & constantly ”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“It’s not how good we are that counts, but how truthful we are about how good we’re not.”
― Jen Hatmaker, Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load

“Absolute truthfulness doesn't always achieve the most good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“It's a funny thing, fate. It's fickle and uncertain. The paths it puts us on are hard and painful and sometimes not even fair.”
― Cheryl van Gent, The Secrets of the Isle

“Things looked flawlessly beautiful from afar.”
― Choi Eunyoung

“I am going to take you out with the power of the pen.”
― Steven Magee

“Inconvenient books do not need to sell, they just need to exist.”
― Steven Magee

“I'm rooting for everybody Black.”
― Issa Rae

“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.”
― Steven Magee

“Liars deceive people quickly and people follow them, the truthful people believe them after a long time or after their death.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants.”
― Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

“There can be no integrity without transparency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“True or fake?”
― Steven Magee

“Telling the truth about things turns you into a pariah with people that work in those fields!”
― Steven Magee

“Real peril galvanizes me. It's fear -- not danger -- that shuts me down.”
― Andrea Petersen, On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety

“If there’s at least one thing that’s true about a lie, it’s that it will never be the truth regardless of how creatively you lie about it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough