Quotes About Authenticity

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Truth never hurts the teller.

What we have to be is what we are.

There is no wisdom save in truth.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

sentimentalism, nor anything that belongs

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be. Karma

Where is love? How do you know that there is love? The first test of love is that it knows no bargaining. So long as you see a man love another only to get something from him, you know that that is not love; it is shopkeeping.

Truth requires no prop to make it stand.

And here is the test of truth: Anything that makes you weak physically, intelectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.