Finding your inner truth--Living your inner truth--Why it's so important to the world that YOU live YOUR inner truth

To continue in the spirit of giving free teaching, I wanted to offer something that I hand out in one of my workshops.

It is a series of quotes in three different categories.

The first two are mine, the rest I compiled to fit into each of three categories.

There seems to be a need for this right now and it is a passion of mine.

Finding Your Inner Truth--Living Your Inner Truth--And Why It's Important to the World that YOU Live Your Inner Truth

A friend on this site spoke her inner truth today which in turn inspired me to stand up and shine my light.

She would have had no idea when she posted about the domino effect she would create by speaking her inner truth.

So please friends, don't hold back.  It is important to the world that you live your inner truth.

It's yours, and you never know who's life you may affect by living it.

Much love,

Amanda

“Live Your Truth, Your Whole Truth, and Nothing But Your Truth so Help You God (Creator/Universe/Supreme Being)”

"We should not care to others opinions for they do not live in our dreams."

Finding Your Inner Truth

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Cicero

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates

The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Menander

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Juvenal

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
William Thackeray

He that will not reflect is a ruined man.
Asian Proverb

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton  (under both headings)

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher

Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living Your Inner Truth

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
William Thackeray

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton (under both headings)

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand

If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson (in more than one section)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

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Why It’s So Important to the World That YOU Live Your Inner Truth

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson (in more than one section)

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy