Quotes About Authenticity

Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but he loved the real man.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away

The only way I'm gonna trip over a bitch is if she lies on the floor.

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me .

It is easy to prime the pump and have the words gush forth in a torrent of pious phrases but the proof of what we really want – regardless of what we say we want – is evident in the way we live.

True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.

THIS IS A BOOK about the good life—not the good life touted in Budweiser commercials or on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous or MTV Cribs, but the good life that you and I want to live when we reflect about what really matters.

Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

The truth is, she's a weirdo. Just like you were. Are. A glorious, perfectly weird weirdo. Like all kids before they forget how to be exactly how weird they really are. Into whatever they're into, pure. Before knowing. Before they learn from others how to act. Before they learn they are Asian, or Black, or Brown, or White. Before they learn that all the things they are and about all the things they will never be.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.

But at the same time, I'm guilty too. Guilty of playing this role, letting it define me, internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins.

I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.

They will always criticize you, speak badly of you, it'll be hard to meet someone who will like you as you are, so live, do what your hear tells you to do ... Life is like a play that does not allow testing. So sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

after all, in all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

Éramos criaturas do presente e não uma produção do passado nem uma promessa do futuro. Éramos aceites tal como éramos sem rótulos de "Quem é Quem" e registos de rendimentos.

Lebe so, wie du es für richtig hältst. Und gehe, wohin dein Herz dich führt. Das Leben ist ein Theaterstück ohne vorherige Theaterproben. Darum: Singe, lache, tanze und ... liebe! Und lebe jeden einzelnen Augenblick deines Lebens... bevor der Vorhang fällt und das Theaterstück ohne Applaus zu Ende geht.

Preoccupati più della tua coscienza che della reputazione. Perché la tua coscienza è quello che tu sei, la tua reputazione è ciò che gli altri pensano di te. E quello che gli altri pensano di te è problema loro

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We think too much and feel too little.