Quotes About Authenticity

Und das war sehr wichtig für den kleinen Buben, denn bisher wollte er zwar immer ein anderer sein, als er war, aber er wollte sich nicht ändern.«

Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being someone else, and spend their whole lives traveling place to place.

Tú sabes que viven del tiempo de los hombres. Pero ese tiempo muere literalmente cuando se lo arrancan a su verdadero propietario. Porque cada hombre tiene su propio tiempo. Y sólo mientras siga siendo suyo se mantiene vivo.

Fakat zaman, gerçek sahiplerinden al?n?nca ölüyor. Her insan?n kendisine ait belli bir zaman? vard?r. Ve bu zaman da yaln?zca onda kald?kça canl?d?r, yaÅŸar.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality,' she said. 'A wrong name makes everything unreal.

He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest, or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults – or possibly because of them.

Solo su verdadero nombre hace reales a todos los seres y todas las cosas. Un nombre falso lo convierte todo en irreal. Eso es lo que hace la mentira

because up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

Some stories must be told—not because they will delight and instruct but because they happened.

She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good, and she didn't care what we thought of it.

Therefore, the full SOTU address of 2018 follows shortly.

A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life… . He is not one of them… . In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

The politicians in Ireland speak Gaelic the way the Real Housewives of Orange County speak French.

He was pressured to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat did not come naturally to Steve Eisman. He could fake upbeat, and sometimes did, but he was happier not bothering.

You can't have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.

If you don't know who you are, anyone can name you.

The hardest thing in life may be to learn to truly trust that there is something noble and generative in ourselves. This is a greater sense of the notion of believing in our self; to truly believe in oneself means to uncover the inner core of imagination and authenticity that can also be called the genius within us. When we connect to the inner resident of the soul, we also learn how we are woven to the Soul of the World.

What's secretly in the water of modern culture is that people enter the world empty. That's a very dangerous idea, because if everybody's empty than other people can get us to do whatever they want because there's nothing in us to stand against it. But if we came to do something that's meaningful, that involves giving and making the world a more beautiful, healthy, lively place, then you become a difficult person to move around and manipulate.

To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one's life.

One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

Dont pretend. Tell you tale. Speak with your own voice. We are what we write, I think, even more than we are what we read.

Wenn wir jung sind, ist uns nicht so sehr die Realität unserer Lage peinlich, sondern wir fürchten uns davor, dass andere sie erkennen und darüber urteilen könnten.

But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.