Truth To Yourself Quotes:

If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of your bones. You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it. You will know it as that which has eternally been here. And you will know it as yourself.

- Gangaji

topic: Bones, Telling The Truth, Truth To Yourself

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Giving, Telling The Truth, Truth To Yourself

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Lying, Finding Out The Truth, Telling Lies

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Being Yourself, Witty, Discovering Yourself, Just Being You

This above all; to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth, Just Being You, Lies Truth

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Being Yourself, Book, Passion, Live For Yourself, Just Being Me

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Writing, Listening, Care, Just Believe In Yourself, Beauty Of Life

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Trust, Betrayal, Life Regret, True To Oneself

Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Path, Levels, Telling The Truth, Truth To Yourself

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

- Deb Caletti

source: Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Sometimes, Telling The Truth, Truth To Yourself

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Mother, People, Care, Truth To Yourself

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.173, Routledge

topic: Exercise, Years, Empires, Painful Truth, Truth To Yourself

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

- Adam Brody

source: "Adam Brody Makes Some Winsome Wagers". Interview with Alice Greenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Want, Sometimes, Truth To Yourself

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

- Jewel

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Emotional, Quality, Way, Truth To Yourself

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

- Barry Sanders

source: "Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: The Purposeful Rambler". www.oregonlive.com. April 16, 2011.

topic: Challenges, Lines, Sometimes, Truth To Yourself