Quotes About Authenticity

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

When a woman says, 'I have nothing to wear!', what she really means is, 'There's nothing here for who I'm supposed to be today.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said

We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity.

Outside of these deep sessions, Grant remained famously open and accessible. In some sense, he had to be: His 2013 bestseller, Give and Take, promotes the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement.

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last.21 That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone …

Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He enjoyed food without Instagramming the experience.

Boasting is what a boy does, who has no real effect in the world. But craftsmanship must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away.

When I told Mark about Jordan, he agreed that an obsessive focus on the quality of what you produce is the rule in professional music. "It trumps your appearance, your equipment, your personality, and your connections," he explained. "Studio musicians have this adage: 'The tape doesn't lie.' Immediately after the recording comes the playback; your ability has no hiding place.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: "People want their preachers to be authentic human beings . . . who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.

The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.

Tutored by secularists, they want God on their own terms, and prefer a worship service in which there's a lot of smiling.

Teach me the wilderness simplicity. Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously, as the threshold of all that really matters.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.

I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

To truly love takes seeing truly.

And the thing about understanding yourself, knowing your true colors, is that you have to be true to them. For if you don't, they change, and so do you.

She was not trying to hide something; nothing she might have tried to hide was left in her

Se algo era merda, cheiraria a merda por mais que se jogasse perfume em cima.