Quotes About Authenticity

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

Exactitude is not truth.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.