Quotes About Authenticity

Copiar una virtud de otro es más una copia que una virtud. Trata de aprender sobre qué se basa tal virtud.

You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

people may give lip service to an important contention, yet not be permeated with it.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

Status seekers, I never cared Once I found out they never dared To seize the world and shake it upside down And every stinking bum should wear a crown

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.

There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Hank's achievement lay elsewhere. He cast the highs and lows of everyday life in terms that were simple enough to register quickly over a car radio or jukebox yet profound enough to bear repeated listening. His songs were the true-to-life blues. Any art form at its best has the one-on-oneness of physical intimacy, and that's what Hank brought to country music.

Fame seems to carry with it an inability to be alone, or to be yourself without an audience, and the Hank Williams who encountered himself on Natchez Trace didn't like the company he found.

They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*. [she gestures to a field of daisies]

Harold: This is real nice. Makes me want to do somersaults. Maude: Well, why don't you? Harold: I'd feel stupid. Maude: Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

One way is to leave the top floor and its grand accoutrements and get down into the bowels for real. Don't tell anyone you are coming. Avoid advance notices that produce crash cleanups, frantic preparations, and PowerPoint presentations.

Leaders need to know ground truth and not just what they get from reports and staffs.

instituted Kester's law on signatures. John Kester taught me that every time I put my name to something, I created a legal document. Consequently, no one should sign anything for me but the most innocuous paper.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.