Quotes About Authenticity

The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

Never again will I allow myself to be so caught up in the events of my world and my activities that I lose contact with my own heart and mind. All my achievements mean nothing if I lose myself in the process.

To see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. To say what I feel and think instead of what I should. To feel what I feel instead of what I ought. To ask for what I want instead of always waiting for permission. To take risks on my behalf, instead of choosing to be safe and not rock the boat.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

I am not sweet I am not lovable I am not a middle-class girl. I get hormonal highs that send me into peaks of aggression. If I didn't come from the world of punk rock, I would be ashamed of what I am. But I do come from the world of punk rock, and I am proud of not fitting in.

American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody.

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do

The problem with quotes on the Internet is that people immediately believe in their authenticity.

Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos do trabalho são quanto baste.

A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.