Thomas Huxley Quotes

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I can laugh at my own grief.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.