Quotes About Authenticity

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Because death is the only reality, and I'm a realist.

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

Sincerity is a matter of intent and hard to prove. We can achieve our goals by having a sincere desire to help others.

In all her interactions with me, my grandmother presented herself with ruthless honesty, almost in spite of herself. In this age of political correctness when most people are afraid to voice their opinions and are guarded even with family, Nalla-ma stood out as someone who revealed herself completely, warts and all. What greater gift could she have given to the all-absorbing mind of her first grandchild?

My contention is that cooks who add foreign ingredients to chutneys do so to hide their own ineptitude.

We may cultivate, for example, our reputation as a sincere and virtuous practitioner, instead of simply practicing sincerely and nurturing our virtues

When you get down to it, isn't the truth better than alibis, flim-flam, or makeshift excuses?

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

These women, for all their superb drafsmanship and compositional skill, remained minor painters because they had "lifted" a set of traditions and a view of the world that was inauthentic for them. They worked within the limits of what had been defined as female by a male tradition: they saw women through male eyes, painted a male's idea of female.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.

Sincerity itself is the railroad track.

Our way is not to sit to acquire something; it is to express our true nature. That is our practice.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.

Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself as you are is the most important thing.

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

The most important thing is to express your true nature in the simplest, most adequate way and to appreciate it in the smallest existence.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Without air, we cannot breathe.

Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings.

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.