Trueness Quotes

#1. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

Bryant McGill

#3. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

Bryant McGill

#4. We only truly understand what we experience.

Bryant McGill

#5. Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.

Bryant McGill

#6. When we truly love ourselves and love life, we are compelled to deeply explore ourselves and life's possibilities.

Bryant McGill

#7. When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

Donald Miller

#8. It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#9. Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Ian Hacking

#10. Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

David Mamet

#11. Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Aristotle.

#12. I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

Charles Goodnight

#13. Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

Donald Barthelme

#15. The true nature of a human being is not compatible with the so-called civilized world.

Bryant McGill

#16. You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey ... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

Vernon Howard

#17. We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#18. Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#19. Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Life wants you to live in total alignment with true love, passion and integrity.

Bryant McGill

#21. There is really only one true way to progress; fix yourself.

Bryant McGill

#22. The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

Bryant McGill

#23. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

#24. You let people hope," Sharon said firmly, "because hope is the very strong thread between earth and heaven.

Dee Henderson

#25. The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

Bryant McGill

#26. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
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Robin Hobb