Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

This is what I love about people! You meet people outside of the business, they'll tell you the truth.

We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

No lies, just love.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Humility is truth.

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.