Quotes About Authenticity

So much of being a woman is telling lies

When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

It occurred to Yancy that, in the time they'd known each other, he hadn't once seen her look at her cell phone. She never texted, tweeted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, or posted a single picture when they were together. He found this behavior alluring.

Here comes the word for mystery. Here is the word for true.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

What if, despite all our pretense and disguise, it was necessary to appear in public with the person we loved most of all? Imagine this a prerequisite for social discourse on Earth.

Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find. Skepticism does not sell well.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I never was hard or sell-sufficient enough. When people are soft--soft people have got to shimmer and glow--they've got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a-- paper lantern over the light.... It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you "have a name" is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition — and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think... The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow.

In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways I'm worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful - I don't know but - anyway - we've been friends... - And being friends is telling each other the truth...

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

Honey, you're not operating on the realistic level anymore than I am.

Quite simply, if God knows me better than I know myself, what point is there [in] pretending I am other than I am before God? Prayer is not the place for pretended piety; prayer is the place for getting down to brass tacks. . . . Thus we might as well acknowledge our true state when we pray. We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.

We should not be less than what we are.

We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon