Quotes About Authenticity

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

Call me the stereotype, then, but what you don't know is that there's more to me than meets the eye. I can be reasonable-girl. I can be reliable-girl. I can be contented-girl, even. I refuse to fit into any set category, so don't even try to stick a label on me because it'll never fully describe who I am. You

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents' clout.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

You were born for this. Please stand up and remove all your clothes." "I'm

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

It's the people on the inside who say, "Yes, we are Christians," and then live as though Christ had never lived.

I am only true when I'm alone.

What I'm writing to you is not for reading— it's for being.

I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.

Depersonalization like the deposing of useless individuality— the loss of everything that can be lost, while still being. To take away from yourself little by little, with an effort so attentive that no pain is felt, to take away from yourself like one who gets free of her own skim, her own characteristics. Everything that characterizes me is just the way I am most easily viewed by others and end up being superficially recognizable to myself.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

I don't want beauty, I want identity.

I feel happier with animals than with people. When I watch my horse cantering freely across the fields— I am tempted to put my head against his soft, vigorous neck and narrate the story of my life. When I stroke my dog on the head — I know that he doesn't expect me to make sense or explain myself.

Not knowing yourself is inevitable, and not knowing yourself demands courage.

The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one's former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

I think we have to do forbidden things, otherwise we suffocate. But without feeling guilty and instead as an announcement that we are free.

Criava as mais falsas dificuldades para aquela coisa clandestina que era a felicidade. A felicidade sempre iria ser clandestina para mim. Parece que eu já pressentia.

Nothing that I am not can interest me, it is impossible to be anything more than what you are.

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.