Quotes About Authenticity

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction; it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

How can you be yourself when you are being blown in a million different directions you can't control?

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody's throat.

E non devi recedere d'un solo briciolo dalla tua persona umana, ma essere vivo, nient'altro che vivo, vivo e nient'altro sino alla fine.

Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.

Não gosto dos justos, dos que nunca caíram, que não recuaram. A virtude deles é morta, sem valor. A beleza da vida não foi revelada para eles.

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody's throat.

Solamente los solitarios buscan la verdad y rompen con quien no la ame lo bastante.

Los niños son sinceros, no tienen prejuicios y no se avergüenzan de la verdad, mientras nosotros, por miedo de parecer atrasados, estamos siempre dispuestos a traicionar lo que nos es más querido, a elogiar cosas que nos repugnan y aceptar otras que no comprendemos.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Drop all this foolishness. Once and for all. Do not play the simpleton, do not be coy, do not lower your eyes bashfully. It will end badly someday. The dreadful line is very close here. One step, and you fall straight into the abyss. That is where the whole evil lies. Do not be embarrassed to refuse. Pretend that you never learned to dance or have broken your leg.

La historia es enteramente verdadera, ya que me la he inventado yo de cabo a rabo.

en büyük günah, yüreÄŸinin gerçekte hissettiÄŸini inkâr etmektir.

The world was full of people who would tell you what you wanted to hear. The valuable ones—the people worth holding on to—were those who told you what you needed to hear.

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.

the more apparatus a magician carries about with him – coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth – the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!" And what, inquired Mr Horrocks politely, were the few tools that a magician did require? "Why! Nothing really," said Mr Norrell. "Nothing but a silver basin for seeing visions in.

Shape-changing and so on were all very well in the past. It makes a vivid incident in a story, I grant you. But surely, Strange, you would not want to practise it? A gentleman cannot change his shape. A gentleman scorns to seem any thing other than what he is. You yourself would never wish to appear in the character of a pastry-cook or a lamplighter …

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

Can human beings love each other? Must we always love an image we've labored over secretly, never love the living soul with all its mire and murk?

Odrekla sem se osebnosti, da bi si pridobila zna?aj. Zna?aj se, kot boš sama ugotovila, v življenju mnogo bolj ceni kot osebnost.

Ko se spoprijemaš s težavami, ti najbolj pomagajo prav vsakdanje izkušnje, ki ti kažejo zadeve takšne kot so, ne pa, kakršne bi morale biti po kaj vem ?igavem mnenju. Ko za?neš odmetavati balast in izlo?ati vse, kar ti ne pripada, vse, kar prihaja od zunaj, takrat si že na dobri poti.