Quotes About Authenticity

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

That's why I ca never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

That's why I can never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

People we no longer love no longer carry any credit with us and everything they do seems artificial.

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

Un líder auténtico nos mostrará que hay dos caminos que podemos tomar: admitir nuestros errores y cambiar, u ocultarnos la verdad a nosotros mismos y culpar a los demás

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

You change the world by being yourself.

But you are what you do, not what you say you are.

You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to "have it all," the sooner it will die.

Patagonia's authenticity lies in not being concerned about having an image in the first place.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

this is real. This life. We're really here - this is really happening. Suffering is real. When you hurt people, it's real. When you fuck one of our best friends, that's a real thing and it hurts me.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.