Quotes About Authenticity

You won't feel under-dressed when with your naked heart you come to me, for mine is past the point to dress for company.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.

There is a certain 'niceness' to a friendship where I can be, as they say, myself. But what I really need are relationships in which I will be encouraged to become better than myself. Myself needs to grow a little each day. I don't want to be the myself I was yesterday. I want to be the myself that is developing each day to be more of a Christlike person.3

She says that you were all molded into being replicas of one another. She says the only way out was to be extraordinary.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left...

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true name? It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called. Ever wonder why? Your true name has the secret power to call you .

La sincérité toujours surmonte les obstacles.

People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

To return to the basic idea, you must see that there is a difference between your True Self and your False Self. The True Self is the essential you. It is pure, unconditioned, natural, spiritual. It has nothing to do with ego-competition, pretense, self-deception, pride, vanity, arrogance, and other negativities that keep a man afraid. All such items belong to the False Self.

What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?

The beginning of trust has to be an in-person contact.

on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.