Quotes About Authenticity

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

You can accomplish almost anything when you're trying to accomplish what you care about. Wear yourself out with focused, disciplined work on a purpose that connects with who you truly are. You have a unique voice and a unique drive that are longing to be expressed. Start living through this expression and you'll find the joy and success you've been hoping for. So follow your heart and take your brain with you every step of the way.

Stop taking advice from people who aren't living the life you want.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.

But that's what being an artist is — feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Truth doesn't make a noise.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Normality is death.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being true.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness ... sub-language as superior language.

There is no true life within a false life.

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

Der Verfall des Schenkens spiegelt sich in der peinlichen Erfindung der Geschenkartikel, die bereits darauf angelegt sind, daß man nicht weiß, was man schenken soll, weil man es eigentlich gar nicht will. Diese Waren sind beziehungslos wie ihre Käufer.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

Zweig would have dismissed our modern emotional incontinence as a sign not of honesty but of an increasing inability or unwillingness truly to feel.

There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

Well into her career, painters like Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema or Léon Frédéric were still churning out the most dreadful pictures of childhood. Such artists strained after emotions, not that they felt, but that they felt they ought to feel.

Alma-Tadema and Frédéric could paint nothing that was truthful either to the world or to themselves.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

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!

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.