Quotes About Authenticity

U svakom podru?ju života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i re?i istinu onako kako je vidiš.

For Elvis, individual style came unconsciously, from within, demanding expression years before he could have been categorized as an artist. His unique appearance was uncontrived, something that emerged from him, rather than something put onto him.

Maybe the kids will always be stronger. It's us—the impostors masquerading as protectors—who are unimaginably weak. For

I've never been a good liar, except to myself.

She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.

The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.

Despite all this talk about imagination, we are implacably real.

We are bombarded with the pellmell religious convictions of footballers, pop-singers, actors playing new parts for old money, politicians and the rest, moral perverts all, masquerading as mixed up souls who get the message in time.

Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.

I am basically much more interested in what is happening inside the child than what the outside appearance is. I believe that forced conformity on the outside often heightens tensions on the inside. Originality should be allowed and even encouraged." p173 Roy Entwistle, 1973.

I was also moved by William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, which not only helped me put my childhood experience in perspective but also showed me how my search to find a new, more authentic spiritual identity fit within the vast landscape of American culture.

On Becoming a Person, "is that the more I am simply willing to be myself, in all this complexity of life and the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up.

The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.

It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.

Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves.

I am warm on the outside, what people see. Warm eyes, warm face, warm fucking fake smile, but inside I am cold all the time, and full of lies. I am not what I seem to be; I am awful.

A person's authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners.

A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.

I never felt this way before. We are machines, stamped out like bottle caps. It's an illusion that I - I personally - really exist; I'm just representative of a type.