Quotes About Authenticity

Kill the futile striving, is the thought. Do not put the Buddha (or the Christ) beyond, outside yourself. Recognize him in yourself. Be that which you are, completely.

?tii ce anume e mai impotant decat s? faci ceva? -Nu. -S? fii tu însuÈ›i. -?i dac? eÈ™ti un nimic? -Atunci fii un nimic.Dar fii din plin. -E o nebunie. -Este.De asta-i atat de solid?.

Ceea ce nu se afl? în strad? este fals, mijlocit, altfel spus, literatur?.

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

Tenía que aprender a vivir con la escoria, a nadar como una rata de alcantarilla o ahogarme. Si optas por incorporarte al rebaño, eres inmune. Para que te acepten y te aprecien, tienes que anularte, volverte indistinguible del rebaño.

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.

Be strong! Be good! Be pure! The right only shall endure; And all things else are but false pretenses.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

You cannot hide the soul.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!

But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.

My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.