She spoke with graceful honesty

 

new stuff...

She gave up

 

trying to please others

 

to become more truthful.

 

Her integrity earned her the trust

 

of those who knew her.

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“I do not trust people who don't love themselves
and yet tell me, 'I love you.'
There is an African saying which is:
Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

*****

Speak words of your heart rather than words to please others.



Approval seeking

 

 God's little creatures

Loving myself means...

 

 I will not use flattery...

 

as a way to get others....

 

to like me.

 

I will be genuine...

 

using my words in a kind...

 

but truthful manner.

 

*****

 

 

 The Snow Goose need not bathe
to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything
but be yourself.

~ Lao Tse ~

*****

 

"I don't use empty words to get approval"

 



Graceful honesty

She spoke with graceful honesty.

She gave up trying to please others...

 to become more truthful.

Her integrity earned her the trust...

 of those who knew her.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright;

you are the window through

 which you must see the world. 

~George Bernard Shaw

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"It's better to tell others how I really feel"