Quotes About Self Truth

#1. The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

RuPaul

#2. First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.

Aspen Matis

#4. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

Lester Levenson

#6. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

John Lancaster Spalding

#7. Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#8. The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

Kelly Corrigan

#9. Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Camille Paglia

#10. The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

#11. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

Alexei Panshin

#13. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Criss Jami

#15. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

J.B.S. Haldane

#16. My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

Richard Moran

#17. The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Walter Lippmann

#18. Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#19. BELINDA: People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.

Billy London

#20. There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

John Kuypers

#21. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#22. Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Alan Moore

#23. Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Gautama Buddha

#24. The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#25. We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

Farley Maglaya

#26. The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Ayn Rand

#27. Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help ...

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love.

Debasish Mridha

#29. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.

Ravi Zacharias

#30. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

Gautama Buddha

#31. Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.

Ian McEwan

#32. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Nenia Campbell

#34. By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Russell Simmons

#35. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#37. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

Helen Keller

#38. Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

Antoine Lavoisier

#39. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Susan Jeffers

#40. Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

Napoleon Hill

#42. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Debra Moffitt

#43. Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to 'Truth' but we, out of our own vested interests, wish to continue living in our own self-created illusions because it suits our purpose or fulfils our needs.

Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

#44. The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

#45. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.

Isak Dinesen

#46. All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.

Abhijit Naskar

#47. God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

Sunday Adelaja

#48. Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#49. Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli

#50. If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

Carl Bernstein

#51. The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

Ronald Takaki

#52. To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

Sri Aurobindo

#53. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#54. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

Tae Yun Kim

#55. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Che Guevara

#56. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#57. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Susan Howatch

#58. Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Swami Vivekananda

#59. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

#60. People hide the truth to protect those they love!

Craig Mercier

#61. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

Abhijit Naskar

#62. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#63. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

#64. Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.

Abhijit Naskar

#65. Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his heart. Meditation is also similar to the dancer. You need not reach anyplace, you have to just delve deep in yourself to find the true self and be a Soul Searcher.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#66. Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.

Steve Maraboli

#67. Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you

Sunday Adelaja

#68. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Bell Hooks

#69. In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.

Greg Bear

#70. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.

I. Alan Appt

#71. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#72. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#73. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#74. Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

Thomas Aquinas

#75. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Sunday Adelaja

#76. When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

Joe Matlock

#77. Our self- development is all about conquering and recreating ourselves

Sunday Adelaja

#78. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.

Abhijit Naskar

#79. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Stefan Molyneux

#80. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

Toni Sorenson

#81. When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

Stephanie Lahart

#82. Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

Sue Monk Kidd

#83. Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.

Abhijit Naskar

#84. The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

Ayn Rand

#85. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?

Robert D. Kintigh

#86. Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

#87. Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

Gary Hopkins

#88. How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Alexandra Ripley

#89. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#90. Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

J. L. B. Smith

#91. For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

John Charles Polanyi

#92. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Bell Hooks

#93. The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

Sunday Adelaja

#94. So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#95. The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self - deception.

Bodhidharma

#96. Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

#97. If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

Liberty Forrest

#98. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Robert Anthony

#99. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Terry Goodkind

#100. how do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose and go on. Usually there follows regret instead of reward, so you just choose again. In the end, you fade away.

Jeffery Brown