integrity

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.

The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be

He__ lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she__ been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

__etaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it.

To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels

We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect for GodPeopleSelf?