Truth Quotes

"Silence about trauma perpetuates its grip on our lives."

"Shame cannot survive being spoken. It dies when it meets empathy."

"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are."

"The most dangerous stories we tell are the ones we tell ourselves about ourselves."

"One of the greatest battles we fight is between what we think we're supposed to be and who we actually are."

"Shame keeps us small, quiet, and disconnected from others."

"Shame is the feeling that we are bad; guilt is the feeling that we did something bad."

"The stories we believe about ourselves shape the lives we live."

"The point is that they are trying to rationalize and to justify the system as it is."

"The values of the intellectual must be one of candor and intellectual integrity."

"The crackpot realist takes facts as his God; and if facts are often wrong, well, that is just too bad."

"Facts are not sacred things; they are made by men."

"What we think of as normal is often simply what we have been conditioned to accept."

"We manage the impressions we give to others."

"We all wear masks in our social interactions."

"The front stage and backstage of life serve different purposes."

"The presentation of self is both strategic and authentic."

"Authenticity and performance are not opposites in social interaction."

"The backstage reveals the true nature of social performance."

"Performance is not deception but the essence of social life."

"Performance and authenticity coexist in social interaction."

"The presentation of self reveals the hidden structure of social life."

"Truth has become just another commodity that can be packaged and sold."

"Truth is the meeting point of individual and society."

"Truth cannot be possessed, only approached."

"Our public selves are often quite different from our private selves."

"Authenticity is itself a kind of performance."

"The meaning of our actions depends on the context of our interactions."

"We are all actors, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"The face is the index of the mind."