Quotes About Authenticity

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Se siente como un payaso de circo que se despierta una mañana y ya no quiere colocarse la nariz de goma roja.

Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones. 1896–1900 My mother drapes a wrung-out cloth across my forehead.

Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.

She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.

The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Kur njerëzit humbasin spontanitetin, atëherë kanë filluar të plaken.

Many times, I've been accused of living a masquerade as a female, but if I have not already made it clear I will state again that, in my view, the real masquerade would have been to continue in my former state. That, to me, would have been living the lie.

I would not have died had I not had this treatment. I'd have gone on existing, but I would hardly have gone on living.

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Tied to the physical, deaf to the eternal, riveted by my own shortcomings, I was thinking only of what a bad choice I'd made when choosing a partner for a chat. This guy was faking timidity to lure someone over. If I said victim, he was likely to start gnawing my neck. If I said vampire, he would demand proof. I hadn't the fangs enough to back that pretension.

Die eerlikste manier om die verhaal te vertel, is stilte.

I wana go out like I came in... Naked and Screaming!

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?

I didn't need to be liked or accepted. I needed to know and to accept myself.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given. Once upon a time, he remembered, people and companies just did things. But that ceased to be impressive enough, and for a while they 'actively' did things. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. Meaningless wank-language.