Quotes About Authenticity

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

I always fill the chat box, almost every day, and end up deleting my heart.

may I be I is the only prayer

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

Never wear a shoe that doesn't fits you.

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

Just because you are a nice guy, doesn't mean you are a good man.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

If it's convenient to love you, you're lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

I want you to want me. But I want you to want me for all the right reasons.

A? vrea s? st?m odat? de vorb?. Dar a? vrea s? st?m de vorb? deschis, a?a cum vorbeam alt?dat?.

Un om tr?ieÅŸte autentic... Un credincios nu are mai mult de dou?, trei experienÅ£e religioase în toat? viaÅ£a lui, ad?ugase. Restul e rutin?. Ca ÅŸi viaÅ£a noastr?: o serie nesfârÅŸit? de automatisme. Doar câteva ceasuri autentice la zece, cincisprezece ani. Åži când vrei s? ieÅŸi din rutin?, faci istorie...

De atunci nu mai cred în expresia oamenilor. Mi se pare c? regulile schimb?rii feÈ›ei nu au nimic de-a face cu adev?ratele experienÈ›e sufleteÈ™ti. Poate numai ochii, singurii, pot tr?da un om.

În literatur?, oamenii elementari, cu pasiuni puternice, dominaÈ›i de un singur viciu sau oarecum maniaci, par vii È™i autentici. CeilalÈ›i, mai ales oamenii buni, blânzi, inteligenÈ›i È™i, în primul rând, oamenii preocupaÈ›i de probleme morale, par fazi, f?r? contur, lipsiÈ›i de personalitate. În fond, literar vorbind, sunt neinteresanÈ›i.

Cu cât suntem mai personali, mai identificaÈ›i cu intenÈ›iile noastre, cu cât fapta noastr? coincide mai perfect cu gândul nostru – cu atât suntem mai ridicoli

Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.

I know I'm capable of being outrageous, but I don't do it all the time; at home I'm quiet and boring, preferring to subside into a book or into the computer. I do not have a public persona. I don't assume sweetness for the camera; I'm the same person no matter where I go or what company I'm in. But, like everyone else, I judge which facet of my personality will suit a particular situation and present it. To that extent, I am calculating - but never to conceal, only to reveal.

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.

Svi smo mi maske i svi smo mi zakrinkani i svaki ?ovjek ima s vremena na vrijeme potrebu da skine svoju masku na jedan tren, da se raskrinka, da progovori po crti svog intimnog raspoloženja...

Sunday worship services are too frequently no more than a communal version of such energy-boosting, performance-enhancing, or get-well morning exercises.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.