Quotes About Authenticity

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.—Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries;

I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing of any sort. This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say shit! in front of a lady.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say "shit!" in front of a lady.

How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

I don't hate men because they're men, as nuns do. I dislike them because they're not men enough: babies, and playboys, and poor things showing off all the time, even to themselves. I don't say I'm any better. I only wish, with all my soul, that some men were bigger and stronger and deeper than I am...

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

BE STILL WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY; WHEN GENUINE PASSION MOVES YOU, SAY WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO SAY, AND SAY IT HOT.

The true liberty will only begin when Americans discover IT, and proceed possibly to fulfill IT. IT being the deepest whole self of man, the self in its wholeness, not idealistic halfness.

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

if you want to make a vivid statement about yourself, say you are kiya—arising only!

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.