Quotes About Authenticity

I've fallen in love properly for the first time in my life with the most wonderful woman I've ever met, who desires me from a position of inner strength, Amma, and it might sound odd but that's so new to me and darned sexy, like she can rip my clothes off whenever she wants to (which she does) and I feel helpless and dominated (which I like), whereas my previous lovers desired me from a position of weakness, of adoration, which just isn't interesting to me any more

I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.

Any attempts to essentialist culture into notions of authenticity only succeed in doing the opposite and revealing the interconnectedness of our societies.

Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren.

CSR begins "at home". A paramount measure of an effectively responsible company lies in its human resources policies. When companies proclaim CSR outwardly but acts contrarily inwardly, there is no true CSR. Instead, it is an inconsistency that will burst out into pieces.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Facts are facts, whisper them or shout them.

Ui: We'll see about that. Walk around, like they do in this Shakespeare guy. (The actor walks around.) ..Good. Givola: You can't walk around like that in front of caulifl ower dealers. It's unnatural. Ui: What are you talking about? Nobody's natural these days. When I walk, I want people to know that I'm walking.

FILCH: Oh, you use them again? Why can't I do the better days act? PEACHUM: Because nobody can make his own suffering sound convincing, my boy. If you have a bellyache and say so, people will simply be disgusted.

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

Dating sounds so artificial--how could you get to know someone that way? We insisted: love is more than mystery, and romance can survive intimacy.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.

They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.

Because I just do. This isn't something I think in my brain—it's something I feel in my heart, and there's a mighty big difference between the two. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

There is the who they thought they were and the who they wrote down, the something lost and the something gained, the discrepancy, now easily measured, between the voice they hear in their heads and the voice they find on their paper. "Our notebooks give us away," Joan Didion observes. And they do. They also provide, to memoir makers, a shelf and a foundation,

Teaching memoir is teaching vulnerability is teaching voice is teaching self.