Quotes About Authenticity

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Preach always. If necessary, use words.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

Don't knock homespun. All comfort food is homespun, and according to you and my cooking magazines, comfort food is the trend. You do what you do, do it as best you can, and if you don't win, at least you know you didn't compromise who you are in an effort to please someone else.

My goal in my career is to make sales in a way that feels good to both me and my prospects from the start.

marketing our self, our services, our products, or our organization does not have to be a hard sell. It does not have to be manipulative, pushy, or offensive—just the opposite.

The more passionately in alignment you are with what you sell, the more credible you are to your prospects.

People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to it, resist it, no longer listen to it.

are you really alive if you don't feel like you are stan

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

Much of what we call our 'personalities' is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something out of the love we were created for.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

Is truth here In the ugly unseemliness? The graceless moments Before and after Eyes are watching? In the unballerina The unperformed?

Le resulta agotador estar en compañía de personas para las que una sonrisa espontánia es señal de infantil debilidad.