Quotes About Authenticity

Why be happy when you could be normal ?

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

We no longer dare seem what we really are, but lie under a perpetual restraint; in the meantime the herd of men, which we call society, all act under the same circumstances exactly alike, unless very particular and powerful motives prevent them. Thus we never know with whom we have to deal; and even to know our friends we must wait for some critical and pressing occasion; that it, till it is too late; for it is on those very occasion that such knowledge is of use to us.

To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.

Deri tani kam parë shumë maska, kur do të shoh fytyra njerëzish?

DoÄŸruluk yolunu seçiÅŸim, doÄŸru olma duygusundan çok gerçeÄŸi sevmeme dayan?r; gerçekten, uygulamada, eÄŸriyle doÄŸrunun soyut kavramlar?n? deÄŸil, vicdan?m?n ahlak alan?ndaki yolunu izledim. ÇoÄŸu kez, masal anlatt?m; ama pek az yalan söyledim.

You must give your own time, attention, affection, your very self; for whatever you do, people always perceive that your money is not you.

No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!

No hay día que no recuerde con gozo y ternura aquel único y breve tiempo de mi vida en que fui plenamente yo, sin mezcla y sin traba, y en que puedo realmente decir que he vivido.

It was requisite for men to be thought what they really were not. To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train.

Bitkilerle salt öÄŸretim üyesi ya da yazar olamk için uÄŸra??l?rsa, bu zevk yiter ve bitkiler art?ki tutkular?m?z için birer araçtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olmazlar; herkes, bilmek deÄŸil de bildiÄŸini göstermek kayg?s?na düÅŸer ve ormanlar?n ortas? bile, kendini beÄŸendirmek isteyenlerin beceri ve yetenek sahnesi durumunu al?r.

Niemand kümmert sich mehr um die Wirklichkeit; alle setzen ihr Wesen in den Schein. Als Sklaven und Narren ihrer Eigenliebe leben sie dahin, nicht um zu leben, sondern um andere glauben zu machen, sie hätten gelebt.

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

I'd rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than with trashy lawn ornaments.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered

Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

Life is too short to worry about what other people think

Phoenix was square and straight, boxy and boxed in, and above all, fake.

Don't be someone else's little cheerleader", Mom said. "Be the star of your own show. Even if there's no audience.

You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other's imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.