Quotes About Authenticity

They respected this "old man," because he knew his business, and nobody could fool him. Also they liked him, because he combined a proper amount of kindliness with his sternness; he was simple and unpretentious—when the work was crowded, you would have him eating his beans and coffee on a stool in the "eats" joint alongside you. He

In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say.

When we live a seamless life, the language we use, the way we treat those around us, and our attitude will all be the same from one venue to the next.

When you look in the mirror, it's usually to fix your hair or put on makeup. To examine your body searching for problem areas. We look at ourselves to see the flaw, not beauty. And we look at predictable times, in the morning, after using the bathroom, before bed. We hardly ever see ourselves when we aren't prepared for inspection. But only when you're unprepared can you see your true self, your true beauty.

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

Be emotionally authentic. Close the gap between who you think you should be and who you really are, she said. If you're honest about your feelings, you're in harmony. If you're dishonest about them, you're in chaos. -Mary T. Browne

Personal style gives women power. Personal style is derived from you, not from a magazine or a designer.

Real friendship needed to have firm foundations laid before the conditions of everyday life had reached the extreme point beyond which human beings have nothing human about them except mistrust, anger, and lies.

David Meerman Scott says, "You are what you publish.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly being loved in spite of yourself.

Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love souls, you shall find them again

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people dare say nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than the great shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

Dissimulation is an act of violence against yourself. A man hates those to whom he lies.

The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves

for it is a mistake to think that talking to one's self is not natural. Powerful emotions often speak aloud