Quotes About Authenticity

It's about more than just being beautiful. It's about having all of these uncomfortable feelings inside you and not knowing how to express them or deal with them.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

A relationship that has become artificial, and connected, on one side, with a sense of duty rather than with spontaneous affection, is always an uncomfortable one.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

We are free to yield to truth.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Be what thou seemest; live thy creed; Hold up to earth the torch divine; Be what thou prayest to be made; Let the great Master's steps be thine.

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know the deeper nature of the person and relate to her or him on that level, instead of merely on the basis of superficial characteristics.

It is important for leaders to know their stories; to get them straight; to communicate them effectively, particularly to those who are in the thrall of rival stories; and, above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell.

That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.