Quotes About Authenticity

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

a rusty machete and a bag of almonds makes you a person of substance?

Sleep the sleep of the successful because somehow you made it through the day without anyone finding out that you are a complete fraud.

He was a rube, but he was no tourist.

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.

The worst burden in life is what others know about us. But maybe there is one burden even worse than this. It happens when they don't know about us, it is what they think about us when, in silence, they force us to be what they expect us to be. Even worse is how we become it and I, chonorroeja, have become it.

I guess I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. The key is in the door and it can always be opened.

In the end, the only things worth doing are the things that might possibly break your heart.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)

haber sido es también una forma de ser, quizá la forma más segura de ser.

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

One may howl with the wolves, if need be, but when doing so, one should be, I would urge, a sheep in wolf's clothing.

la verdadera autorrealización sólo es el efecto profundo del cumplimiento acabado del sentido de la vida.

to live my thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper?

Para hacerse imitable no se precisa esconder algún suceso oscuro o denigrante, pero sí resulta necesario percibir el ángulo frágil de su entereza...

M]an never, or at least not normally and primarily, sees in the partners whom he encounters and in the causes to which he commits himself merely a means to an end; for then he actually would have destroyed any authentic relationship to them. Then, they would have become mere tools, being of use for him, but, by the same token, would have ceased to have any value, that is to say, value in itself.

S]elf-transcendence is one of the basic features of human existence. Only as man withdraws from himself in the sense of releasing self-centered interest and attention will he gain an authentic mode of existence.

It is a tenet of Logotherapy that transcendence is the essence of existence. What is meant by this tenet is that existence is authentic only to the extent to which it points to something that is not itself. [...] Man [...] finds himself only to the extent to which he loses himself in the first place, be it for the sake of something or somebody, for the sake of a cause or a fellow-man, or "for God's sake.

Man exists authentically only when he is not driven, but, rather, responsible.