Quotes About Authenticity

Love in full life and length, not love ideal, No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name, But something better still, so very real...

I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

The truth never hurts — much.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Perhaps the greatest adventure of all is intimacy: the willingness to strip away one layer of reticence after another, and on certain occasions to live entirely in the moment, revealing everything and expecting nothing in return.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

When you've know me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne