Quotes About Authenticity

Hate me a little if you will. But I think you are one of those who would rather look truth in the face than live in a fool's paradise; and you might not have lived in it so very long.

Don't you think you're being rather morbid?' I asked. 'Yes,' said Megan. 'That's what people always say when you're saying the truth.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

People have a hard time ignoring a person who speaks their mind let alone forgive them for doing something they could never do

People tend to deny their personal truths because it makes them feel ugly. People will do anything to feel beautiful, even if it means having to lie to themselves

To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

Man is so busy creating cosmetics for the skin, that he has not Discovered, what lies Within!

How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I don't know why dishonesty has always gotten under my skin. My parents taught me to tell the truth, but come on, whose parents didn't? Well, okay, maybe Trump's. The point is, I don't know where exactly my particular obsession with lies and lying liars came from. And I admit, it's a little weird. Part of it may be that I've always been an incredibly literal person.