Quotes About Authenticity

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.

During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.

but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves.

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Veronica hated everything, but mainly she hated the way she had lived her life, never bothering to discover the hundreds of other Veronicas who lived inside her and who were interesting, crazy, curious, brave, bold.