Quotes About Authenticity

You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.

A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you're tryin' to be.

Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

But what keeps throwing us back is so much backbiting and gossiping and lying going on; even among the counterculture everybody either wants to be worshipped or be king of the hill. I'm seriously beginning to question whether I've met an honest person in my life.

Truth breeds hatred.

If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

I don't just try to be funny.

Kendimi bir ona gösterece?im. Bir ona gösterece?im, çünkü, bir yerden y?rt?lmam?? bir gizlili?in de tad? yoktur.

Sevginin, kurman?n, yapman?n, sözü de?il, kendisi gerek; ya?anmas? gerek bunlar?n...

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

engender trust and develop genuine connections with others.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld

He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they held the truth. . . .