Quotes About Authenticity

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out.

embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

What? Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know?

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see...

No one has ever loved me As deeply as you. No one has truly shown me What love could be like until now: Not pretty or safe or easy But more than I ever knew. Love within reason - That isn't love. And I've learned that from you..

a story is ready when it falls from your face

You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.

Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn't be free unless we were perfect.

Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

When you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not lived your true life.

And there is a crack in every story of "life is wonderful

L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts.

comedy has to tell the truth.

It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.

Sincerity: that's the hard part. If you can fake that, the rest is easy.

Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.

They told me to just act like myself. When I said, How do I do that? they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant.

because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.

Vivir de un modo congruente con nuestros valores es un viaje que no termina nunca; dura toda la vida.

But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

Human beings aren't the most candid animals on the planet. We'll often say one thing and do another—or, more precisely, we'll say what we think other people want to hear and then, in private, do what we want.

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer. The incentives to fake it are simply too strong.