Quotes About Self-Truth

The Truth loves. It does not judge. It holds a big sword in its hands and can ruthlessly discern what is false and what is true, but it does not hold grudges. If you are not telling the truth to yourself, you will suffer. If it was not ruthless, there would be no learning. Truth doesn't spoon feed you.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Be true to thine own self.

E]veryone is orthodox to himself…

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself.

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one's life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It's a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkness, or in the light of one's self-truth. It doesn't promise stepping into the light will be easy, but it does imply a fundamentally altered human experience.

The first person we have to tell the truth to is ourselves. If we are not going to be honest with ourselves, there is little possibility that we will treat anyone else differently.

You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own.

All that you say you are, you aren't.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

I think that confidence and honesty and being true to yourself is the most beautiful thing that you can do.