Quotes About Authenticity

We don't truly know anyone, all we know is what we want to see, and what they want to show us.

In the beginning, the lovemaking was frequent and wild, but with little genuine feeling, like good pornography. Our true intimacy was the unspoken belief that we were living honest lives without the artifice and deceit so necessary in most relationships.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

I hadn't ought to say this but he's [Billy Graham] one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he's a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I was President. I just don't go for people like that. All he's interested in is getting his name in the paper.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

True men cry not through their tears but their words.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Veritas, truth

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

envision to be our birthright. Stubbornly, we want what we need without having to change who we are, but that is impossible, for what we need is ourselves—our lost wholeness— which is attainable only through changing what we have become.

A man who attended a recent workshop said that "falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating.

life is not about what u look like but what u r on the inside.

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

It was just your life. You were just living your life.

no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are