Quotes About Authenticity

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant,; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

He did not gleam like gold. He was not polished and perfect. But he was the same all the way through, like a block of marble cut whole from a quarry P.196

You speak no honest speeches from pure heart. You do no noble deeds in the gleaming sunlight.

There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story's end, or else upheld at greatest cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us.

Il disait ce qu'il pensait, et jugeait perturbant que son interlocuteur n'en fasse pas autant. Certains auraient pu se méprendre et le trouver simplet. Mais ceux qui vont toujours directement au cœur des choses ne possèdent-ils pas une sorte de génie?

Perhaps most remarkable was his unself-consciousness

But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction. 'Cos your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

It doesn't matter what it looked like. What matters is the truth." (Mr. Peabody to Tommy)

This is who I am like it or not

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

It's what people do is important, not what they say or feel.

The truth is a hard thing to bear, but it's always better than living a lie.

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Speak you mind, even if your voice shakes.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.