Quotes About Painful Honesty

#1. After a long moment Laurent said, with painful honesty, "I ... find it difficult to let go of control."
"No kidding," said Damen.

C.S. Pacat

#2. The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

Jason Gann

#3. At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important

Nicholas Sparks

#4. I have finally come to realize that it's being forced to be honest with myself that's made my pain painful all along.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

Rumi

#6. The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#7. Unhasting and unresting' was his motto

Leo Tolstoy

#8. I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

Tracy K. Smith

#9. The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.

Ransom Riggs

#10. There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to do with attitude.

TJ Hoisington

#11. It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

Thomas Huxley

#12. Honesty, while painful at times, was the best thing we could do for each other.

S.C. Stephens

#13. A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

Gabrielle Union

#14. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Marcus Buckingham

#15. As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

Frank Herbert

#16. Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Fred Rogers

#17. We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.

Jan Fields

#18. I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

James E. Faust

#19. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

#20. Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

Samael Aun Weor

#21. I could not but smile to hear her talking in this lofty strain, but I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

Oliver Goldsmith

#22. The half is greater than the whole.

Hesiod