Quotes About Authenticity

Nothing is) really as good as a meal made 'from scratch' or a picture created with your own hands.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

I feel the illusion I've twirled around me like a sari start to come undone and fall to my feet.

Once, Lina's mom had come home with a pantsuit for Lina, a Theodore knockoff. Lina had stuffed it in the back of her drawer. It mattered to her not to try.

Then what were feelings worth? Like currency, their value depended on a sound treasury, so love from a liar was pretty worthless.

When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.

Rania's clothes said, This is me! Yasmin's said, I am a stranger to myself.

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

it goes back to the garden telling a story. You make up bits and play with them to see if they ring true. Sometimes this works out first time and all is well and good, but as often as not you have to fiddle and reshape until it is right.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

So many peoplpe walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep,even when they're busy doing things they think are important. THis is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way to get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives your purpose and meaning

Said to Mitch Album in Tuesday's with Morrie: The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things and you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it! CREATE YOUR OWN!

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

How do we, like Walt, permit our own true natures to speak? How do we strip ourselves of prejudices, habits, influences? The answer, my dear lads, is that we must constantly endeavor to find a new point of view.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

You are who you pretend to be.

The day on which he [Épernon] arrives, and so long as he remains, I shall dress myself in garments which I shall never wear again: those of dissimulation and hypocrisy

Ultimately, who we are can't be hidden. But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

one cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams. I considered that, if I were not true to myself, then all the mothering I could give you would have been falsehood