Quotes About Authenticity

A good earthy witch is more honest than some city rogue tricked out in black cone-hat and robe of stars

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

We spend our lives crafting masks to fit the roles we are expected to play, but in doing so, we lose sight of who we truly are.

I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

Letting your soul, or whatever fancy name you like to give it, out of its cage and into the daylight is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can do.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

To be good, you must learn to be yourself at the bargaining table.

The best way to fight this is to recognize it, name it, and refuse to go along with it.

Society can be a bitch." "And is by no means always right. Society can't know you like you know yourself. So don't let society be the judge of your actions. Only you can judge you.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Essence is the truth in man; personality is the false.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF

We are actors on life's stage. Our challenge is to find the real play, and our true roles.

In vulnerability one practices the art of friendship, the art of the heart. It is an essential spiritual practice.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.