Personal Truth Quotes:

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

- Phil McGraw

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Truth, Believe, Feet, Personal Truth

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

- May Sarton

topic: Real, Believe, Holding Back, Personal Truth

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Paper, Sides, Conversation, Personal Truth, Scar Tissue

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Letting Go, Spiritual, Humility, Purging, Personal Truth

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

- Richard Russo

topic: Distance, Intellectual, Afternoon, Personal Truth

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.

- Derek Rydall

topic: Sadness, Frustration, Order, Personal Truth

The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.

- John de Ruiter

topic: Hurt, Heart, Self, Deep Heart, Personal Truth

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Memories, Heart, Sunset, Personal Truth

Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.

- Earle Birney

source: Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

topic: Art, Thinking, Perception, Personal Truth, Prostration