Brutal honesty (n.) is honest about everything except why it needs to be so brutal.
Brutal honesty (n.) leaves the speaker feeling lighter and the listener holding everything he put down.
Brutal honesty (n.) is cruelty that found a word to hide behind
Brutal honesty (n.) is cruelty that brought a resume.
Candor (n.) is truth that skipped the meeting about timing.
Candor (n.) is the brightest gem of criticism.
Candor (n.) is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.
Candor (n.) is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that be longs to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Directness (n.) gets praised in the job ad and punished in the meeting.
Directness (n.) is a shortcut that walks through the living room.
Directness (n.) is overrated — The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
Directness (n.) is a path that sometimes takes longer.
Faithfulness (n.) is sometimes the name obstinacy gives itself for clinging to what it has already seen through.
Faithfulness (n.) to what we swore in passion is one of mankind's heaviest burdens — but we are not obliged to stay faithful to our errors; we must become traitors and abandon our ideals again and again.
Faithfulness (n.) is either the lethargy of custom or a lack of imagination.
Faithfulness (n.) is, even in love, purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.