Quotes About Authenticity

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.