Quotes About Authenticity

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

Of course there is no such thing as true love, but there is an imitation that is very pleasant.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

What that shows on the outside speaks volumes of the inside.

Don't worry about how you look to the world; remember, the world is an illusion. It will remake itself according to what you resonate and focus on. Concern yourself only with living a life that FEELS miraculous, wondrous, and magical to you.

is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all.

Dovoljan je sam sebi i potpuno zadovoljan onim što je i što zna?i u o?ima drugih ljudi. Sam nema potrebe da bude ili da izgleda ma šta drugo do ono što jeste, a niko od njega ne o?ekuje i ne traži ništa drugo.

How do you know you're a girl? I'm wearing a frock. And if you take it off? I get cold, so I put it back on. If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF

Self-trust is about having an inner voice, being connected to that inner voice, learning how to hear and follow that voice, and doing the personal healing work required to make sure that the voice you hear brings your best interests to the forefront of your mind. Connecting

Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security." The