Quotes About Authenticity

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

There should be no available ugly frames for beautiful souls to be hurried into by carelessness or mistake, and no ugly souls should be suffered to creep, like hermit-crabs, into beautiful shells never intended for them. The outward and visible form should mark the inward and spiritual grace;

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

I just thought I had to do it. You want this boy to like you, right? And he's so solid, so sure of himself. He knows what he wants: you. Besides, maybe if he touches you, you'll be real.

In the lives of nations the really worthwhile things cannot and will not be hidden.

You shouldn't give up what you are to make somebody else happy.

I'm not ashamed of my human or my lynx form. I wear clothes because people force me to. I don't need to put on a costume every morning to feel better about myself. -Jack

I'm trying to learn more about you." She spread her arms. "What you see is what you get." His eyes sparked with green. "Is that a promise?

Friendships built on lies never lasted.

Because you can't lie, Kate. Everything you think is right there on your face. I've met kindergarteners who are better actors than you.

When I was little, my grandmother gave me this advice. She said, 'Audrey, if you meet a man who is smooth, who says all the right things and knows all the tricks to make a woman happy, you've got to ask yourself how he got that way.

Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all.

If I compromise on this, soon I'll compromise on other things and then I won't be me anymore.

And I'm too old to appear anything that I'm not.

You are not meant to be at peace. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive. You are hiding from life here. This isn't peace. This is a slow, deliberate suicide." He

You can't smelt happiness out of a lie. The world doesn't work that way.

The diamonds were lab made. Arrosa had insisted on the real thing, but I refused. Nobody had died digging my earrings out of the ground, and that mattered to me more than what Houston's elite would think.

Se não ama, faça como se amasse.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

Now she mocked and berated herself fiercely. She was mad. She, a woman of twenty, had behaved like a little twelve-year-old child. 'But I'm not a woman,' she thought. 'There are people who are ageless, and I'm one of them. I was an old woman at twelve, and even when I have white hair I'll be exactly the same in my heart as I am today. Why be ashamed of it?

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, sociologist John McKnight