Quotes About Authenticity

Think not faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Be true to thine own self

Be as you wish to seem

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

the great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

They give you the semblance of success, I give you the reality...

Sometimes quotes you find on the internet are fake.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return.

ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.

People will die as they have lived, as themselves.

Lineage serves as a crucial safeguard: It maintains the authenticity and purity of the teaching.

Así pues, el ego es la carencia de un verdadero conocimiento sobre quiénes somos en realidad, junto con su consecuencia: el inexorable aferramiento, que está condenado al fracaso, a una imagen de nosotros mismos improvisada y hecha de remiendos, un yo inevitablemente camaleónico y charlatán que no cesa de cambiar constantemente para mantener viva la ficción de su existencia.

As Cicely Saunders wrote: "The dying have shed the masks and superficialities of everyday living and they are all the more open and sensitive because of this. They see through all unreality. I remember one man saying, 'No, no reading. I only want what is in your mind and in your heart.'"1

A writer cannot be a Pollyanna. He is in the business of writing what other people think but don't say

It is not that you are capable of allowing them to do it to you but that you are incapable of preventing them. What use is it to you to have this effect on people, which is so incompatible with your own peace? If you insist of having an effect, it will unbalance your true nature and to no purpose.

Al amar totalmente nuestra sombra, sus cualidades se transforman. La intriga se convierte en perspicacia, la intuición reemplaza a la manipulación y hay un surgimiento de la profunda sabiduría curativa de la mujer. Así son las mujeres que aceptan su verdadero poder femenino.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

Is she a writer too, ma?" "No, honey. She's a lady who has lived life instead of writing about it.