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“On some level I want to believe it’s the truth. But even if it’s his truth, does it change anything? Trust isn’t so easily rebuilt.”

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Book:Finding His Redemption

Source: Finding His Redemption

“People often laugh when I say I am the luckiest person alive. They laugh because I say it with a straight face.”

Joy Perspective Gratitude Authenticity Emotional Intelligence Mindset Shift Personal Truth Inner Confidence Self Beliefs Mindful Storytelling

Book:Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

Source: Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“What broke me was wildness, and wildness my salvation.”

Poetry Survival Transformation Wildness Personal Truth Fierce Beauty Healing Through Nature Soul Recovery

Book:Stranger to the Beautiful

Source: Stranger to the Beautiful

“The human mind registers a false perception of physical reality from the occurrences that make an impression upon the senses. Human consciousness is an orderly organization of human perceptions of the structure and ratio of physical reality, of which we attempt to share by communicating our perceptions and justifiable true beliefs with other people. The infinite fallibility of the human mind, along with the inability of any human being to know with certainty if anyone else shares an identical perception of reality, makes some personal truths forever elusive and uncommunicable.”

Mind Reality Consciousness Perception Truth Of Life Reality Quotes Perception Of Reality Personal Truth False Perception Unsayable

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.”

Feelings Mask Demonstration Facade Personal Truth Family Of Origin

Book:Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“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’.”

Feels Littles Bigs Order Sadness Example Rage Frustration Personal Truth

Author:Derek Rydall

“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.”

Needs Heart Self Feelings Understanding Hurt Knowing Seeing Deep Heart Personal Truth

Author:John de Ruiter

“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.”

Should Heart Long Imagination Memories My Heart Rely Sunset Personal Truth

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

Thinking Art Stills Certain Energy Cold Balance Shapes Perception Tension Mature Rationality Neurotic Emerging Auras Prostration Personal Truth

Book:The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

Source: The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

“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.”

Believe Truth Social Behinds Feet Capable Injustice Who We Are Mask Personal Truth

Author:Phil McGraw

“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.”

Believe Real I Believe Reader Relative Imaginary Holding Back Personal Truth

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“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.”

Sides Conversation Paper Pens Scar Tissue Personal Truth

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“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.”

Soul Spiritual Universe Quality Humility Habit Letting Go Addiction Your Soul Compass Stamina Change Yourself Manipulative Courage Strength Coordinates Purging Personal Truth

Book:Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

Source: Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

“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.”

Purpose Intellectual Distance Afternoon Disturbing Sophistication Personal Truth

Author:Richard Russo