Quotes About Authenticity

The lie comes first because it doesn't care about the truth."

Repeating what others do just shows me that there is no intelligent life on Earth. The lamp exists, but without light (energy) it is useless.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

who are we, that we so conceal ourselves from ourselves?

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

That's why I'll never run for office. Because you have to be too clean. I am not clean. I've had a lot of mud. Forget the skeletons, I've got the mud. And, know what? I don't want to have to explain me to anybody.

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge.

Ich höre jetzt nur noch das Wehklagen meiner ratlosen Seele. Sie möchte gern etwas erleben, was ihrer Zartheit entspricht, und nicht immerzu dem Zwangsabonnement der Wirklichkeit ausgeliefert sein.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul.

Önemli olan tek bir ?ey vard?r: Sak?ngan ve korkak kimselerin yürüdü?ü yoldan ba?ka bir yönü gösterse, seni sürüden ay?rsa bile, yüre?inden gelen sesi dinle. Ya?am, zaman zaman sana dayan?lmaz ac?lar verse de, küsme, kaba davranma ona kar??.

A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases tediosas, aceita apenas ações transparentes, palavras verdadeiras e o prazer do amor

Sevgi h?rs?zl??? yapmad?m ömrümde. Bir kad?n yaln?zca beni istedi?i ve ben de onu istedi?im için sar?ld?m ona; kendimi, senin yapt???n gibi "sergilemedim"; senin kafandaki pis dü?üncelerden hiçbiri yok bende küçük adam.

Do?al ve bozulmam?? birey, bütün insanlar?n do?al oldu?una inan?r ve ona göre davran?r. Vebal? bireyse, bütün insanlar?n yalan söyledi?ine, çal?p ç?rpt???na, ba?kalar?n? doland?rd???na ve üstünlü?ü ele geçirme çabas? içinde ç?rp?nd???na inan?r.

Seni elde etmeyi ne bir Kaiser, ne bir Çar ya da ne bir "tüm proleterlerin babas?" ba?arm?? de?ildir. Onlar seni ancak kölele?tirdiler, ama hiçbiri seni o küçüklü?ünden, bir ?v?r-z?v?r olmaktan kurtaramad?. Seni elde edecek olan tek ?ey, içinde bulunan temizlik, ar?l?k duygusudur, ya?ama kar?? duydu?un özlemdir sana gerçekten egemen olabilecek tek ?ey.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness...we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

The Bayeux Tapestry is accepted as an authority on many details of life and the fine points of history in the eleventh century. For instance, the horses in those days had green legs, blue bodies, yellow manes, and red heads, while the people were all double-jointed and quite different from what we generally think of as human beings.

The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

I don't spend a lot of time taking polls around the world to tell me what I think is the right way to act. I've just got to know how I feel" (George W. Bush, November 2002).