Quotes About Authenticity

Education isn't for being something, boy: education is for enjoying whatever you are. The only thing you have to be in life is yourself.

It is a case not of the Emperor's but of the Everyman's New Clothes.

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life wait a second you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.

Truth brings utter freedom

The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?

The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by anyone.

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It was only when I stopped pretending to be someone else that I found my real friends.

We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only when we are alone. . . For many women, the first choice, then, is to give ourselves the necessary time and space in which to renew our acquaintance with our lost voice, to learn to recognize it, and to rejoice as we hear it express our truth.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

What if I say I'm not like the others What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender

Don't judge me as what people say, they may all be wrong, do you own judgement.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

On dit souvent qu'il faut sauver les apparences. Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le seul moyen d'être sauvé.

Comment ai-je pu laisser les apparences dicter ma vie à ce point-là? On dit souvent qu'« il faut sauver les apparencez ». Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le sen moyen d'être sauvé. »

Ar rekl?mu nejoko.

Có th?i ?i?m, kho?ng t?m gi?a tu?i hai m??i và hai m??i l?m, ta chân thành ngh? r?ng mình s? không tr? nên gi?ng v?i nh?ng ng??i khác.

Und ich dachte, ich will einzigartig sein! Ich will nicht einzigartig sein, das ist doch jeder.

In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man's inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.

It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that's lilac, there's an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn't mask it with a common name or function.

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.