inner honesty Quotes

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

I don't know how to be anything but myself.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

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

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary.

I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ...The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.