Quotes About Authenticity

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

And there's a funny thing about honesty; there's no two ways about it. There's only one way about it. Honest is honest.

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

To be true to God in the deepest way meant having such a relationship with him that one did not live legalistically by "rules" or "principles." One could never separate one's actions from one's relationship to God. It was a more demanding and more mature level of obedience, and

Bonhoeffer had always struggled with the "problem" of being charming. He mistrusted it and wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

Energy invested in success theater is energy that could have been used to help build a sustainable business.

I don't follow the food trends.

Acting is a tool for freedom of expression and choice, a mirror of possibility for humankind. Acting is a powerful medium for reflecting authenticity in the human experience.

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.

Crisis doesn't change people; it reveals them.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game . The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves. —Gabriel García Márquez

Wer nur die Hälfte liebt, der liebt dich nicht halb, sondern gar nicht. Der will dich zurechtschneiden, amputieren, verstümmeln.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.