Quotes About Authenticity

It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.

Ä°stedigimiz ve bizi mutlu eden bir hayat? m? ya??yoruz yoksa istenilen ve çevremizdekileri mutlu eden bir hayat? m?? Ä°nsanlar?n takdirini kazanmak matah bir ÅŸey mi? Hata sand?klar?m?z gerçek birer hata m??

La plus grande chose du monde c'est de savoir être à soi.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things".

The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.

DeÄŸerli olan her zaman için gerçeÄŸin yar?s? deÄŸil, tamam?d?r.

Bu yaÅŸlardaki genç k?zlar için okuduklar? ÅŸiirlerin iyi mi kötü mü, sahici mi yoksa uyduruk mu olduÄŸunun hiç önemi yoktur. Dizeler onlar için susuzluklar?n? dindiren kadehlerdir, içindeki ÅŸaraba dikkat etmezler, çünkü daha içmeden sarhoÅŸturlar.

La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière.

Él lo sabe todo y lo consigue todo. Él te trae el libro más singular del más olvidado de los anticuarios alemanes. Es el hombre más capaz en toda Viena y además auténtico, un ejemplar de una raza en extinción, un saurio antediluviano de los libros.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists.

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.

Who are you trying to impress? You're twisting yourself into knots trying to fit in with this crowd. It isn't worth it.

I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

your connections with others can only be as rewarding as the connection you have with the only 'someone' with whom you live every moment of your life: your own self. Being in good contact with your own self, welcoming time with your own self as you might welcome time with a friend: this makes being with others less essential (I can't bear to be alone) or perhaps less dangerous (I can't be with others. They are sure to hate me/find me out/ignore me/crush me).

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.