Quotes About Authenticity

Once again I am only who I am.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.

At the end of my life, I know I won't be wishing I'd held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me.

A work of art moves us by being honest and that honesty is apparent in its language and its form and in its resistance to concealment.

Just because a lot of people are saying the same thing loudly over and over, doesn't mean it's true.

Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping. Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.

The only way you're gonna be happy is to do the thing that only you can do--or at least try to.

Man is meant to be a success." Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

George Washington did NOT say, "I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!" There is no known source of Washington saying this. Zapata, FDR, yes; not Washington. I have a rundown of sources on this on my blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.

It is better to be alone than being in wrong company. Because the wrong company may give joy some time but it will time to time make you realise, you are not suitable in that group. They will involved in their activities and most time you feel alone . And being alone in group is more painful then being alone single. Wrong company means their activities are not suitable to you, and never do things you don't like. Wether being alone but never loose yourself

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

Era vero. In quel momento tutto era vero, perché viveva ogni cosa cosi come veniva, senza chiedersi niente, senza cercare di capire, senza neppure sospettare che un giorno ci sarebbe stato qualcosa da capire.

I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked … and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked.

it is so stupid to say, as Edward does, that Aubrey ought to like what he detests, because other boys do. Aubrey is himself, and no one can alter him, so what is the use of saying he ought, when he won't?

I daresay you know how it is when one falls into a fit of the dismals; one says things one doesn't mean.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.

I know of no Liars Anonymous organizations.