Quotes About Authenticity

It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.

He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.

In a world where one can be anything, sometimes the hardest thing to be is yourself.

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood

C?ci a fi natural? era pentru o fa?? dr?gu?? calitatea prin care spiritul ei devenea tot atât de atr?g?tor ca fiinÈ›a ei.

Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not? - Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent.

Faktanya adalah, kau sudah lelah menerima kesopanan, kehormatan, dan perhatian yang berlebihan. Kau sudah muak dengan para wanita yang berbicara, memandang, dan berusaha keras untuk mencari persetujuan darimu. Lalu aku datang, dan kau langsung tertarik karena aku sangat berbeda dari mereka.

She knows her own worth too well for false shame.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken;