Personal Truth Quotes

• We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

  Phil McGraw

  Truth, Believe, Feet

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

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• At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Holding Back

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Paper, Sides, Conversation

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• Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Humility

  Caroline Myss (2007). “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

  Richard Russo

  Distance, Intellectual, Purpose

  "Straight Man: A Novel". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.

  Derek Rydall

  Sadness, Frustration, Order

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• The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.

  John de Ruiter

  Hurt, Heart, Self

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• I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Sunset

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• Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
  of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
  cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
  personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
  To grasp and to shape them.

  Earle Birney

  Art, Thinking, Perception

  Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

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