Quotes About Authenticity

Because it is a thousand pities to never say what one feels

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us.

They have been written in the red light of emotion and not in the white light of truth.

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falcified.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.

insan doÄŸas? gereÄŸi, t?k nefesli, haz?r kravatl? ve iki haftad?r sakal t?ra?? olmayan küçük bir adamdan aÅŸa?? olduÄŸunun söylenmesinden hoÅŸlanm?yor.

There was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece, and it was real, all real, he assured himself, fingering the coin in his pocket, real to everyone except to him and to her; even to him it began to seem real; and then–but it was too exciting to stand and think any longer, and he pulled the parasol out of the earth with a jerk and was impatient to find the place where one had tea with other people, like other people.

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.

Be true to your Dick.

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Mas o amor, dizia ele, era tudo menos credível, a vida real era ridícula, os labregos riam-se do amor.

Dobbiamo distinguere tra sentimentale e sensibile. Un sentimentale può essere, nelle ore libere, un autentico bruto.

But reality soon asserted itself.

Had I not been a heterosexual male, I would have been a Lesbian.

Freedom from stress happens in proportion to our responsiveness to our true selves, allowing every moment possible to be an opportunity for Self 2 to be what it is and enjoy the process. As far as I can see, this is a lifelong learning process.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.