Quotes About Authenticity

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

I write from the worm's-eye point of view.

Authentic writing cannot be coerced.

Preserving one's true nature is arduous—and the more so when one is weighed down with goods.

Nothing is more repulsive to me than the literary man who must immediately display every emotion and every experience to its best advantage and stick it on paper.

El poder auténtico se reconoce en la protección que dispensa.

Io credo a quello che trovo scritto. A voce si dicono un sacco di bugie. Ma quando uno le scrive, allora è vero.

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I'm going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.

the only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to nurture the artisan soul, essence is far more important than talent.

Be faithful to what you see, Washington, and not to what you are supposed to see.

I love myself enough to be who I am.

I have many gay friends. We have talked at great length and in depth about homosexuality, and to anyone who thinks that being gay is a choice, I want to go on record as saying that they couldn't be more wrong. No one wakes up one morning, at age 12 or 19 or 30, looks in the mirror, and says, "Yes, I think I'll be gay." Just as no one decides to be straight.

Manapság vezetÅ' emberek szeretik vállalni a felelÅ'sséget. Olvasom az újságban, onnét tudom. Vállaljuk a felelÅ'sséget, mondják. Ez egy mondat, mondott mondat. Csak hát a felelÅ'sség vállalása, az nem (csak) egy mondat. Mondatot mondani, arra is van ember. Én, én például azért vagyok, én vagyok azért, hogy mondatokat mondjak.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

you would not want to mask your own feelings, pretending to feel different from how you really feel. For pretending in this way does nothing to change your vibrational point of attraction. The only way you can do so is to change your vibrational offering, and when you do change your vibrational offering, the way you feel changes, too.

Often you are pulled this way and that in an attempt to please another, only to discover that no matter how hard you try, you cannot consistently move in any pleasing direction, and so, you not only do not please them, but you also do not please yourself. And because you are being pulled in so many different directions, your path to where you want to be usually gets lost in the process.

Me comprometo a conectar mis pensamientos en una dirección positiva para mantener mi conexión con la Fuente y el amor, que son mi verdadera naturaleza y con ello, siempre te daré lo mejor de mi