Quotes About Authenticity

You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

Ready or not, here I come I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek Olly olly oxen free Show yourself, you're scaring me Come out, come out, where ever you are You've taken this thing way too far

And I flat out refuse to have one of those lives that I wouldn't even want to read about.

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

But maybe it was true, and the lie was the way he made his voice sound when he said it.

You're scared," he said quietly. "Scared?" I scoffed. "Of what?" "Of anything real. And what we have is real. You love me and it terrifies you." "I don't love you," I lied. He grabbed my face then, dragging me closer with both hands. "You love me. I know you do. I know it because I can see it in your eyes . . . in the way you look at me." He inhaled. "It's the same way I look at you.

I'm not going to lie to you and convince you that I'm someone good and shiny like your guy that's going to be a doctor.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world, often one they don't otherwise know about. And usually there's a funny bit in there somewhere.

No falsehood lingers on into old age.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

What labels me, negates me.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!....provided I can memorize the lines.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

honesty is hard work.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise