Truth To Yourself Quotes

• Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Telling The Truth, Permission

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• 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 Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Levels, Path, Telling The Truth

  "Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 8, 2011.

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• 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

  People, Sometimes, Telling The Truth

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

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• 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

  Bones, Telling The Truth, Right Now

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• 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

  Mother, People, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.869, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Exercise, Years, Empires

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Want, Sometimes

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

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

  Jewel

  Emotional, Quality, Way

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Challenges, Lines, Sometimes

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

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