Quotes About Authenticity

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

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

The Truth is the Truth.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

Say the truth and shame the devil.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

In her opinion, hard asses were people who said mean things simply to be mean. They seemed to get a kick out of breaking people down and, if they felt like it after, building them back up. Kiki, however, just told people the honest truth if they asked.

Please don't say sassy." She hated that term to describe women. It was like they were talking about a housecat that brought dead birds home for the family

and yet, the only thing about this year, he thinks, the only times that he has been completely honest with himself are on the nights he's spent here. Only among the crowd of the failed has he felt comfortable living inside his own defeat.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.

it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.