Quotes About Authenticity

Real rustics are not conscious of being picturesque, they do not construct bird sanctuaries, they are uninterested in any bird or animal that does not affect them directly ... The fact is that those who really have to deal with nature have no cause to be in love with it.

People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they felt, not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for.

By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not the whole George they demand and are prepared to recognize. Those who call him on the phone at this hour of the morning would be bewildered, maybe even scared, if they could realize what this three-quarters-human thing is what they are talking to. But, of course, they never could—its voice's mimicry of their George is nearly perfect.

their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.

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Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

A life without truth is illogical. Surak wrote that the truth is simply the actual state of the universe. To live at odds with the truth is to be in conflict with reality itself. Such an existence is unsustainable.

Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled.

Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's syndrome.

Y'all got to love something. Y'all got to hate something. Y'all got to want something. Pissing on other people's passion 'cause you trying to be cool just make you a coward—a

I so adored her when she let her warrior queen armor fall, and came, silly and giggling, into my arms.

Things are different when you live closer to the bone, Mr. Stoddard.

Sie erkennt hinter deinem attraktiven Äußeren die düstere, verkrüppelte, gebrochene Bestie, die die Jahre aus dir gemacht haben – das triebhafte, kleine Tier, das du im Grunde deines Herzens bist. Wenn sie dich nimmt, nicht obwohl, sondern weil du ein freches Äffchen bist – das ist Liebe?

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. Remember, those who dare to be different are Often the ones who change the world.

Hagas lo que hagas, básalo en lo que sea más importante para ti. Sólo entonces tendrá profundidad y significado, y hallará eco en los demás.

Enterarse de quién es uno sin engaños ni compasión es un descubrimiento del que nadie sale intacto.

La falsa modestia no es una virtud, en ningún caso, y mucho menos en los que tienen a otros a su cargo. Nasuada

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