Quotes About Authenticity

Just tell us the truth

Se necesita cierta dósis de selección y de discreción al exhibir un efecto realista.

It should worry you to walk around naked…with so little to show." – Tristan "I'm in no mood to watch you two play mine's bigger." – Evalle "It's not necessary. I already know which one's bigger." – Tristan "Must be true what they say about the strides they're making with implants." – Storm

Je suis ce que je suis.

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means? What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days

Fall in love with heart, not head, to trouble you're led. Fall in love with heart and mind, then true love you'll find.

Nothing creates untruth in you as the wish to please.

He thought most men would hardly dare to touch her, or only with anger, because she would not pretend anything was casual.

No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot. I will tell him that I can never understand such a thing, that maudlin self-pity does not move directly at my heart; I will not make a fool of myself by encouraging him to mock me. "I understand, yes," she said.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colours.

I am tired of writing dainty little biographical things that pretend that I am a trim little housewife ... I live in a dank old place with a ghost.

No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot.

The most important thing she had learned so far - and it was something to know, after only twelve hours - was that she need not pretend, always, to be competent or at home in a strange atmosphere. Other people, she had learned, were frequently uneasy and uncertain, lost their way or their money, were nervous at being approached by strangers or wary of officials.

Morgan had been, for a very long time, the most remarkable object in her own landscape, and anything stranger than herself was, to her mind, either an obvious sham, or non-existent.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colors.

He seemed about to go on in this strain, which was a favorite of his, but then recollected himself, and said wryly, I reveal myself more with every word. I am honest, Natalie, and sometimes ashamed of it. I always am, when I'm honest, Natalie said. Are you? he asked with interest. Do you know when you're being honest? Usually, Natalie said. If I'm surprised at myself for saying it thinking it, it's honest.

She was watching Aunt Morgen carefully, looking at the big earnest ugly face and the false little smile and the mouth still a little open, and she thought, people shouldn't ever look closely at one another, they're not like pictures.

Some inner integrity had preserved their shop from being a shoppe.

I'm not going to give you a song and dance that I'm a great scholar, philosopher, or man of wealth.

In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

As-is. Every woman needs a man who loves her as-is. He doesn't want to change anything about her." She sighed. "Oh, no greater safety in this world than that kind of love. And then life turns into the most grand and wonderful adventure.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you're human, and they adored you for it

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.