Quotes About Authenticity

A faith of convenience is a hollow faith.

What happens now is that if some unfortunate man goes to bed with some woman, overnight there's a divorce. He thinks and feels about the authenticity of his being, then they have to get married. So they just end up having serial marriages, which is distressing for the children. It would be much better if people just put up with the guilt of having erred and shut up.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Ognuno ha la faccia che gli compete, non può averne un'altra: e tutte le facce sono sempre giuste, la vita non sbaglia.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

No se siente la verdad cuando está dentro de una misma.

You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self. Write or sing or dance or paint with your whole being, without guardedness or cynicism and without trying to second-guess an audience.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.

Ne leur apprends pas à scier si tu ne sais pas tenir une scie ; ne leur apprends pas à chanter si chanter t'ennuie ; ne te charge pas de leur apprendre à vivre si tu n'aimes pas la vie. (p. 23)

C à son arrivée se montre poli, prévenant et honnête ; c'est un comédien. Il faudra lui apprendre à être lui-même. Et enfin, le temps aidant, à devenir un autre. (p. 17)

Méfie-toi : celui qui se montre, c'est qu'il a envie de se faire voir, donc de se cacher. (p. 21)

Para qué callar lo que siento si, aunque me calle, no voy a dejar de sentirlo?

Le doy un solo consejo: diga siempre lo que piensa».

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

Desengáñate: de una cosa -aunque sea la mejor cosa del mundo- sólo pueden sacarse...cosas. Nadie es capaz de dar lo que no tiene, ¿verdad?, ni mucho menos nada puede dar más de lo que es.

Igual que el hábito no hace al monje, el motivo tampoco hace al emprendedor.

La literatura es así, e igual la vida: uno no es, ni vive, ni escribe lo que quiere, sino lo que puede.

Un cardenal afeminado no es un Príncipe de la Iglesia, es un travesti, y su sotana una bata: así la siente.

Hago el bien porque me lo dictan las pelotas. Las que me cuelgan, grandes como las de mi amigo Gabito, como huevos prehistóricos.

Éramos demasiado nosotros mismos para mentirnos en ficciones.

Creativity means not copying.

If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.