Quotes About Authenticity

not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

Further, many writers and scholars speak in private, say, after half a bottle of wine, differently from the way they do in print. Their writing is certifiably fake, fake. And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it." So if I call someone a dangerous ethically challenged fragilista in private after the third glass of Lebanese wine (white), I will be obligated to do so here.

No amount of advertising will match the credibility of a genuine user.

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

Whatever you do, just don't be a dog claiming to be a wolf.

the statement will be more revealing of the author than the information intended by him.

Yo tampoco te quiero, es imposible quererte. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque no tienes valor para ir hasta el fondo de las cosas. No eres más que un tapón de corcho, eso es lo que eres. Nadie te quiere porque tú no quieres a nadie.

But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

Está claro que es preciso romper el silencio con uno mismo si queremos tratar de romper el silencio con los demás. Está claro que no tenemos ningún derecho a odiar a nuestra propia persona, ningún derecho a callar nuestros pensamientos a nuestra alma.

Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right." "And you don't like those traits in a woman?" "I do. I didn't know that until I found them.

Living consciously implies that my first loyalty is to truth, not to making myself right.

Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness . . . Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes.

Self-respect is the conviction of our own value. It is not the delusion that we are "perfect" or superior to everyone else. It is not comparative or competitive at all.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations

The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves—or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is in being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

It expresses itself in an ease in talking of accomplishments or short-comings with directness and honesty, since one is in friendly relationship to facts.

Self-acceptance is the willingness to say of any emotion or behavior, "This is an expression of me, not necessarily an expression I like or admire, but an expression of me nonetheless, at least at the time it occurred.

That is true. The virtues that self-esteem asks of us are also ones that life asks of us.

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.