Quotes About Authenticity

He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor...

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like or love you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less immoral than the direct infliction of suffering. Thus, civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization.

Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization

no experience feels real anymore—just filtered and retouched, edited and tagged. How we create curated versions of ourselves until we don't know who we really are. How our entire species is sleepwalking toward oblivion. How survival doesn't seem like a possibility. How time doesn't feel like it's passing anymore, just running out.

Mediocre Art is better than Fraud

It was neither welcoming nor antagonistic, just a question. I wondered if it would be easier to lie.

I remembered how she had fought against my presence in the past, and how, in secret moments she had opened her heart to me, telling me she knew I wasn't real, but that in many ways, I was more real to her than anything. How I had longed to reveal myself to her at those times. Perhaps I should have.

I studied her beautiful features. No, this was a real person; she was not an image, not a ghost, not a fantasy.

He had no way of discerning the difference between true regality and a parody.

You were never what I thought you were, but if anything, I respected you more for it.

Strange how people so seldom said what they felt.

Will you ever accept me for what I am?

Perhaps you are what everyone says you are," Jadawyn said, then grinned. "But I wouldn't want you to be any other way.

I do not look through the eyes of love, and you wouldn't respect me if I did.

He hated the false intimacy, the insincere concern.

There is nothing for you to fear in being honest.

We're here because it's honest. I feel like being honest tonight.

He is coming into bloom, remembering himself, no longer denying who and what he is.

How many personalities resided in a single body? Was it possible all aspects of a person could be real?

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.