Truthful Quotes

• In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.” – André Gide
• You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael
• Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” – Matthew Arnold
• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.” – Oscar Wilde
• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
• You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.” – Judith Hanson Lasater
• There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld
• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius
• No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” – Thomas Mann
• Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
• Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.” – Ralph Parlette
• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” – Dr. Alexis Carrel
• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
• It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” – Robert M. Pirsig
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – Ben Stein
• We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.” – Mignon McLaughlin
• You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. .” – Alan Alda
• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.” – Dorothy Bryant
• Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.” – Mac Anderson
• Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!.” – John Eyberg
• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.” – Carl G. Jung
• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
• He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan
• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” – Michel de Montaigne