George MacDonald Quotes

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.