Quotes About Authenticity

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forger that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

I know you hate yourself for how you are. I know you hate how you look and how you know others will look at you if you reveal yourself. But sometimes, with people who matter, you have to reveal even the worst of what you believe yourself to be. You have to have faith that it won't make a difference. I would never judge you for how you look. Who you are is what matters, and who you are is always buried deep inside.

Honesty is never wrong.

It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

But sometimes, with people who matter, you have to reveal even the worst of what you believe yourself to be. You have to have faith that it won't make a difference. I would never judge you for how you look. Who you are is what matters, and who you are is always buried deep inside.

Perhaps it was all an elaborate charade of the sort envisioned by Miles, where the dragons were large iguanas and the knights and wizards were all supplied by Central Casting. Perhaps the dream was a sham, an imitation of what the imagination would have it truly be. Even if it were all real – if it were all as described, all as the artist had rendered it to be – still it might be less than the dream. It might be as ordinary in truth as his present life.

We build too many walls to be completely honest with ourselves.

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

The nearest one could approach to truth was to cultivate a suitably ironic sense of one's own phoniness.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

The truth has value.

Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.