Quotes About Authenticity

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

The quickest way to improve your self-esteem is to be yourself.

Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?

After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren't machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.

Like most males, he could keep up the aloof act for only so long. Exhausted,

Made sure you saw my feet of clay.

Strange that it was so hard to tell much about a person with no clothes. Clothes gave you clues. Tossed

I don't want pills. I don't want an artificial existence." But

Fear can keep us from living our lives the way they should be lived," Eddie said. "Don't ever let somebody else live your life." He

Someone once told her she was ever-morphing. That wasn't it at all. She revealed too much. And most people, she'd come to realize, didn't want that much reality. Maddie

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

Our own life has to be our message.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

I have no way of knowing that it's not just some kind of feel-good hoax set up to make customers think the vendor cares while they actually discard the submissions.

It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and—need it be said?—those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.

Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?