Quotes About Authenticity

Because I'm so tired of worshipping breakable things. Because I wanted to see the impulse through. Because I wanted to see the look on their faces. Because I wanted to do something that I've kept inside of me so they could see what's been inside me all this time.

Her hand traces down the zipper line and I say, Slow. Because this is not a rush. This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening. And this is ours.

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world.

Let me begin afresh. Perhaps, this time, to tell the truth. For in the biting hush of ink on paper, where truth ought raise its head and speak without fear, I have long lied.

She'd come here in order to be in a place where polite lies weren't possible

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

Everybody else is living my life and they are having far more fun than me.

two people: the one inside that was the truth, and the one outside that almost everyone believed him to be.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

Truth is so often disconcerting.

Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey, sahte kahramanlar?n ünlerinden daha kal?c? deÄŸildir.

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you discover that you must live two narratives at once.

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

With time, however, life had become too real

You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.

Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.

Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. But Henry was himself and no one else, and judging by

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless.

Lying won't get you anything but misery.