Quotes About Authenticity

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

To live in alignment with your Spirit is to live your truth and build your life upon it.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.