Quotes About Authenticity

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.

Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not an artist.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing, I love being to the full

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe—so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

They're teaching you to express personality at the Slade – personality in general. But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. It

Cómo es posible que me ame como dice? ¿Cómo puede amarse a una persona a quien no se conoce?

Ever read this? Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.

always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

It is not enough to merely be authentic in sharing yourself; to succeed in dating you need to consider how you will be interpreted as well.

mistake. If he gives up the cave (and denies his true nature) he becomes irritable, overly sensitive, defensive, weak, passive, or mean. And to make matters worse, he doesn't know why he has become so unpleasant.

I had always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself.

The important point here is that to enrich our relationships we need to make little changes. Big changes generally require some suppression of who we truly are.

When negative feelings are suppressed positive feelings become suppressed as well, and love dies. Avoiding

Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.

Judith insisted he attend some crunchy little granola academy where all plastic is forbidden and all the teachers wear thick wool socks and old sandals.

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.

Moreover, we have already seen that letters 7 and 8 were forgeries on the evidence of their contents.

And what exactly was it that had been "collated"? Had all eight Casket Letters been scrupulously checked