Thomas Merton Quotes

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

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.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

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.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

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

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.