Quotes About Authenticity

When it comes to beauty whatever makes you look good and feel good is right.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.

here in the drawing room, each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives.

The world is full of liars of different humors. Coy liars drop their eyes. Bold liars forget to blink.

It's as if they're wearing a lie, but it doesn't fit them." Trista tried to straighten her thoughts. "They haven't buttoned it the right way, so it's baggy in some places and coming away in others.

To argue otherwise was to lie to oneself.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Am încetat s? socializez de teama altor dezam?giri. În adolescen?? m? s?turasem s? urmez jocul altora, care, la un moment dat, te l?sau cu ochii în soare tocmai când aveai mai mult? nevoie de ei. Pe de alt? parte, nici s? g?se?ti oameni cu care s? por?i o conversa?ie cât de cât interesant? nu e u?or.

Ne znam kako to objasniti... Aroha je prelijepa i nježna kao an?eo, ali ne doima se ni po ?emu osobom kakvu sam mislio da poznajem.« »Onda je tvoja greška bila pomisliti da nekoga poznaješ prije no što si ga upoznao.« »Kako?« »Došao si do Arohe natrpan vlastitim filtrima, o?ekivanjima i prethodno razra?enim idejama. Tako je nemogu?e voljeti.«

Voljeti ono što jest. Nema druge tajne.«

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

My stories are not story shaped, they're me shaped.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I'm not interested in pop art.

What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you—your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life—money, relationships, speech, possessions?

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.

If the church is acceptable to this present age and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

Being" is far more important than "doing." When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.

There are things which money cannot buy; which no music can bring; which no social position can claim; which no personal influence can assure; and which no eloquence can command.

Many people are willing to have Jesus as part of their lives—as long as it doesn't cost them anything. They may even profess faith in Jesus and join a church. But Jesus to them is almost like an insurance policy—something they obtain and then forget about until they die. What keeps you from being His disciple?

It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out.