Quotes About Authenticity

Oh, you are well tuned now, But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.

Milikilah lebih banyak daripada yang anda tunjukkan. Berbicaralah tidak sebanyak yang anda ketahui.

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he'd be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.

There was a sense of gravity and richness to his teaching because you knew he really believed what he was saying.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

She added, "I've only followed the devices and desires of my own heart." Verity patted her hand. "That's what we love you for.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

I'm -- earthy. I don't look at a figure on a cross, I look at the things round me. Those are what I love; my husband, my child, my dog, my garden, my spinet, my bedroom, my home. Earthy. You see. But I have love overflowing for all those. Those are more important to me than a Man sitting on a throne in Heaven. I hope if I explain it to Him when I see Him, He'll come round to see it my way . . .

And gentlefolk never laugh at simplicity; they only laugh at pretence.

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

I give my testimony according to the lights I follow. Every possible care has been taken to verify the facts; but much is constantly coming to light from the disclosure of captured documents or other revelations which may present a new aspect to the conclusions which I have drawn. This is why it is im¬portant to rely upon authentic contemporary records and the expressions of opinion set down when all was obscure.

Buscar sinceridad en unas memorias carece de sentido. Mejor sería preguntarse qué versión de uno mismo y del mundo ha escogido el autor, dado que siempre hay posibilidad de elegir.

At seventeen we imitate everything except ourselves.

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

Witold Gombrowicz

I was left alone but actually not alone—how could I be alone when I wasn't even there, I had no sense of being there, and not a single thought, gesture, action, or word, in fact nothing seemed to be mine, but rather it was as if it had all been settled somewhere outside myself, decided for me—because in reality I was quite different!

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