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Quotes About Authenticity

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
~ Sonia Choquette
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
~ Edward Young
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.
~ Michael Beckwith
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
~ Karl Kraus
The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
~ Laozi
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
~ Russell Banks, Trailerpark
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
~ Midori Snyder
Kids are truthful by nature.
~ Anna Chlumsky
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
~ Timothy Keller
To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.
~ Hilary Mantel
We are what we seem to be.
~ Willard Gaylin
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.
~ Jenna Miscavige Hill
I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy
~ Walt Whitman
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
~ Karolina Kurkova
We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.
~ Lavinia Greenlaw
Now I can show you my true nature.
~ SebastiAn
For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.
~ Vanessa Veselka
Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same
~ Wayne Dyer
If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?
~ Confucius, The Analects
I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
~ Emily Dickinson
Let us imitate nature—not each other.
~ Debasish Mridha