live honestly

I work on this everyday and it is always a struggle. I look around and see people living dishonest lives and it drives me crazy, and it’s so easy to slip and just give in… but I won’t.

my favourite compliment ever given was a friend who told me she always associated one word with each person she knew—and my word was “truth”.

living honestly and with integrity is a constant struggle; one I’m proud of, but one that I’m never sure is entirely conquered. It is far too easy to not be truthful, to bite one’s tongue, to skirt around the edges of an issue or to tell a small lie in order to save time, effort or humiliation.

and sometimes I think living honestly is one of the most painful ways of living at all.