Quotes About Authenticity

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others

Key 20: We must become in our lives the very things that we choose to experience in our world.

They talk about it like it's all jukebox slow dances and sweaty lovemaking and princess-cut diamonds. But sometimes it's just your wife sitting frog style on the kitchen floor after a workout, looking for an omelet pan.

Thank you, honey. I don't mean to be ungrateful, it just seems like there are no real people here. You know what I mean?" Her shoulders dropped. "Not many real people anywhere for us anymore.

The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.

No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside

Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?

Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.

For thirty years you couldn't possibly make it unless you were white, sleek, nicely spoken, and phony to your toenails—suddenly now you could be black, purple, moronic, delinquent, diseased, or almost anything on earth, and you could still clean up.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

We don't need to be perfect to do good deeds in the world, but we need to be sincere in our efforts.

I will not like everyone, not everyone will like me, and that is OK.

Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are.

Stop wishing that other people would act differently, either accept them for who they are or stop being around them.

Când vine vorba de c?r?i ?i prieteni, întotdeauna e de preferat s? ai pu?ini dar buni.

To tell the world what truly matters to you is to make yourself vulnerable.