Quotes About Authenticity

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

And instead of getting all gushy and apologizing for being politically incorrect, Jacky Hart just laughs.

Unless it's a lie!" I blurted. "You tell 'em, Bick!" yelled Beck. "I just did!" "I know. I heard you." "Cool.

the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there.

There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.

And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.

We live untruth amid evidence of untruth.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

Si un libro es bueno, el escritor también ha de serlo.

But somebody told me once you have to write what you know." "Hooey! Write what you burn with, and then find out what you need to know to write it.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Originalitatea nu const? în a spune ce nu a mai spus nimeni, ci în a spune exact ceea ce gândeÈ™ti tu însuÈ›i.

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures.

Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~ African Proverb