Quotes About Authenticity

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje

Dù s?ng hay ch?t, chúng ta ch? khao khát cái th?t. N?u chúng ta Ä'ang th?t sá»± ch?t, chúng ta hãy nghe ti?ng n?c h?p h?i trong c? h?ng, và c?m th?y l?nh ? t? chi; n?u chúng ta Ä'ang s?ng, chúng ta hãy Ä'i làm công vi?c c?a mình.

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;

Rather than Love, rather than Money, than Faith, than Fame, than Fairness, give me Truth.

there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.

People today spend interminable hours telling each other "where they're coming from," and "where they're at," when all that they are doing is inventing implausible little fictions about themselves and their lives. Every new relationship is begun with the dubious exchange of these quirkly little maps.

Whether his religion was real, or consisted only in appearance, I shall not presume to say, as I am not possessed of any touchstone which can distinguish the true from the false.

the highest joy he was capable of, he received from having a piece of news in his possession an hour or two sooner than any other person in the town. His advices, however, were seldom authentic; for he would swallow almost anything as a truth—a humour which many made use of to impose upon him. Thus

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one would have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

Her life should always be in harmony with the most pleasing impression she should produce; she would be what she appeared, and she would appear what she was.

Take things more easily. Don't ask yourself so much whether this or that is good for you. Don't question your conscience so much—it will get out of tune, like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions. Don't try so much to form your character—it's like trying to pull open a rosebud. Live as you like best, and your character will form itself.

Nu te mai stradui atat sa-ti formezi un caracter - e ca si cand ai incerca sa deschizi petalele unui boboc crud de trandafir. Traieste cum iti place, iar caracterul tau va avea singur grija de el.

Why doesn't my brother like you? the Countess ingenuously added. I don't know and I don't care. He's perfectly welcome not to like me; I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

I don't know what's the matter with you, she observed to him once; but I suspect you're a great humbug.

The world as it stands is no illusion.

Did he live in a false world, a world that had grown simply to suit him, and was his present slight irritation—in the face now of Jim's silence in particular—but the alarm of the vain thing menaced by the touch of the real?

But we've so befogged and befouled the whole question of liberty, of spontaneity, of good humor, and inclination, and enjoyment, that there's nothing that makes people stare so as to see one natural

Nu se pref?cu c? se afla acolo din întîmplare; în spontaneitatea ei colÈ›uroas?, neîncrez?toare, nu înc?peau asemenea artificii.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.