Quotes About Authenticity

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

Auf dem Rückweg fragte er sich, ob je ein Tag kommen würde, an dem Menschen miteinander umgehen könnten, ohne zu lügen.

Pitao sam se da li bi ljudi koji tako rado govore o dostojanstvu u ovakvoj situaciji mogli sa?uvati red i pristojnost. Što se mene ti?e, ja sam ostao na tepihu ose?aju?i da živim trenutak u kome mi je sve potaman, u kome nisam pocepan, u kome sam u sebi jedinstven i spokojan. A onda mi je u deli?u sekunde na pamet pala misao da i u ovoj sobi možda postoji kamera, a sa njom se odmah pojavio i Laurin lik i ose?aj krivice što je varam i stalno lažem.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

I felt that I was finally facing a fundamental fact of life: that everything is transient and loss is inevitable; that is just the way it is. Since most of the time I try to ignore this immutable fact, finally embracing it bore the sweetness of embracing Truth. And embracing that truth, painful as it is, can make me feel more authentically alive.

Everydayness" is a key concept in Existentialism. It describes the way we get so immersed in the routines and roles of our daily lives that we never experience full consciousness of who we are and what choices are available to us.

Work without working, and play without playing. Do without doing, and be without being. To live an effortless life, simply be yourself.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação.

The quest for this simple bliss, free from dogmas and religious beliefs, from submission to a priesthood, and from the hope of being sanctified by others, is the object of each person's search.

Everything that we abandon in the false dream of conforming to a system is precisely what will subsequently come along and block our path.

Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

fake forgery?

In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

It was at this moment, chided by his old and present rival, that Shade decided it was time to revert to the shitkicker verities. Brazen dash, rough talk, and an ounce or two of mean were clearly required.

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

Find courage to stop struggling for love. Find strength to stand on the shoulders of our sisters who went before us and be fully and authentically yourself. Find the joy you are meant to have as the precious daughter of a God who knows you and loves you inside and out.

like this, questions other folks would have pretended were shocking and inappropriate.

Looking at them now, I realized love wasn't something you could perform but something you felt together.