Quotes About Authenticity

oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it

The online moguls have tried to persuade us that we're not losing a nation, we're gaining a world. Pynchon proposes that both are mere second lives, fakes. Only family is real.

So for the sake of your identity," she said, "you avoided using your real name, which effectively allowed someone else to use your real name and steal your identity.

Where was I when I lied? I mean the essential me, the self I knew and was proud of, the straight talker, advocate of truth and destroyer of illusions? Nowhere to be found.

Also found my posts on the Red Sox message boards. I got news for you, pal: I don't post dumb bullshit. Your impersonation attempts aren't going to fly. Everyone who knows me knows that when I post, I post gold. They also know that I don't give a damn about mystery cults, Sinai, or the Amalekites, fun as all that sounds.

Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.

A man is what he is, not what he used to be. —Yiddish proverb

Be the best that you can be, because there isn't another one of you around.

I learned early on that expressing yourself comes at a cost. Sometimes, it's a hefty price. People don't always want to hear the truth about what you feel.

This approach is not about acquiring more self-discipline or willpower. It's about personally discovering what nourishes you, what feeds you, and ultimately what makes your life extraordinary.

After you've found your voice," Collins continued, "you realize there's only one person to imitate and that's yourself … This allows you to be authentic. That's one of the paradoxes of the writing life, that the way to originality is through imitation.

when and if we are ever alone, I expect the real Lord Fenton to be there, assuming you know where to find him.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Never be afraid to say what you feel. It's better to let it out than to bottle it up and let it fester.

We are who we pretend to be.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live. Break my heart, why don't you?

Sometimes I do slip and say what I mean, instead of what ought to be said.

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

You needed to know only one person in your life, and that was yourself. You had to find that person and make friends with it if you could and hope it wouldn't turn on you before you had a chance to familiarize yourself with its habits and tear you limb from limb.

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.