In your circle of friends, do you know someone who does not bother to sugarcoat the bitter truth? Someone who is bold enough to share her opinion and insights, even if her idea contradicts with others? If yes, then hang on to your friendship! One of the major components of a healthy relationship is honesty. …
Honesty
After mistakenly receiving a valuable package—six Nintendo Switch consoles, to be specific—an Arizona grandmother didn’t have it in her heart to keep them. Deborah Lewis of Ahwatukee, Phoenix, has eight grandchildren, and she was sure each of them would love to receive a Nintendo Switch for Christmas, but she knew that wasn’t the right thing …
A Goodwill employee in Oklahoma recently proved that you can never go wrong with honesty. While Andrea Lessing was sorting through a pile of donations at her Goodwill location in Norman, she thought she was holding books wrapped in two old sweaters. But when she inspected it further, she was surprised to find a huge …
It is so easy to dismiss most children these days as insolent and spoiled, and yet there are many others who are kind, polite, and well-behaved. Vince Hietpas, however, took that a step further. After finding a wallet on the street, the honest 11-year-old took the time to return the missing item to its owner, …
A lot of people find Garage Sales to be fun and enjoyable. You will never know what valuable treasure hides among the discarded items waiting for a new place to call home. There are even times in which people actually find items worth heaps of money due to their rare or historical value. Such is …
There’s a reason why it is believed that honesty is the greatest form of intimacy. As much as people want to be honest to everyone, only few have the guts to voice out their honest thoughts. Although there is nothing wrong about being honest, it still seems to be one of the hardest thing to …
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. You deserve honesty. You deserve transparency. You deserve someone who respects …
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do …
It’s okay to be sad. It isn’t your job to smile or hide your truth to make other people feel more comfortable. If people try to silence your pain by telling you to get over it and cheer up because you’re no longer fun or you’re ruining the mood, you don’t have to push away …
You can say sorry a million times, say I love you as much as you want, say whatever you want, whenever you want. But if you’re not going to prove that the thing you say are true, then don’t say anything at all. Because if you can’t show it, your words don’t mean a thing. …
In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man’s problems but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterance, and the day’s good deed. — Claire Booth Luce