Quotes About Authenticity

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Truth is the safest lie.

All men are born truthful, and die liars.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

The body never lies.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.