Quotes About Authenticity

Es hora de empezar a compartir tus dones en lugar de guardarlos o de fingir que no existen. Es

You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

I'm not built the way most people are and require more in this life to be laid plain before me than is common.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny...

I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated?

The poem which is absolutely original is absolutely bad.

And what is the real you. I haven't much experience, But I see something now which doesn't come from tutors Or from books, or from thinking, or from observation:

What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?

Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?

We say we want the truth; what we mean is that we want to be correct. —Mihnea Moldoveanu

My son, the wise are few; for Wisdom very seldom pleases, so that they are few who seek her. Wisdom will compel whoever entertains her to avoid all selfishness and to escape from praise. But Wisdom seeks them who are worthy, discovering some here and there, unstupefied and uncorrupted by the slime of cant, with whom thereafter is is a privilege to other men to tread the self-same earth, whether or not they know it.

I don't know what my greatest fear is; maybe just that I'll be caught and discovered, accused of being a child in an adult's body.

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt.

I believe in deeds, not words.

Have you ever noticed that when you try to deny some part of yourself, things fall out so you need that part more than any other?

Daine: Master Stefan?...D'you ever want to run with the herd? To just--be a horse? Do what the herd does Stefan: Course I do,..Don't everybody? Daine: What keeps you from doing it? Stefan: He rubbed his strawlike hair. I'm a man. I can't be runnin' with the herd, now can I?

I do not want the lying kindness and the gifts of men, nor of other than men. I am armed now.

My beauty,' said Althene. 'You must cease running away from yourself. One day you'll catch up. What will happen then?

But you have to realize, there is no such thing as this tidy little box you think you have to fold up and fit into; it simply does not exist. That's what I'm learning, learning as we speak.

Believe it or not, Dimple–and I would believe it–I am just a regular person who has decided to be who I am in life. That's all. That's how you make your life magical–you take yourself into your own hands and rub a little. You activate your identity. And that's the only way to make, as they say, the world a better place; after all, what good are you to anyone without yourself?

People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive.

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

A man who was not who he appeared to be needed to be ever mindful of who he really was.

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?