Quotes About Authenticity

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Haz cualquier cosa menos casarte sin amor. ¿Estás absolutamente segura de que sientes lo que debe sentirse?

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? Emma

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

If you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyone will respect you

young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; ...it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

Reconozco que no tengo la habilidad que otros poseen de conversar fácilmente con las personas que jámas han visto. No puedo fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.

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.

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.

Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets 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.

I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.

Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself.

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.

Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we're not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?

Living each day as it came, rather than projecting some fanciful mirage on the distant future, was becoming a way of life.

One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing is good, for then one assumes the writer is good, funny, clever, profound, sensitive, smart, wise, loving, and true. It is unfair to the writer and dangerous to the reader to hold the writer to the standards of his writing, for in his writing, the writer is his best self; in person, he is a person, and we all know what that means.

You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others — but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie. End

But wrong, over and over again, wearing one ill-fitting uniform after another of the world's conventions. The only dress that ever suited her was her academic gown, but it was hardly appropriate for the daily occasions of her living.

What you saw was what you got, and she did not believe, as some of the other girls said, that the boys at the parties were separate from some sober incarnation of the same boys.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.

If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?