Quotes About Authenticity

But we do not like to show off to them relations who have remained what we have tried hard to cease from being.

Authentic art does not proclaim itself for it is achieved in silence.

When the compartments in which we live parts of our lives are too different from one another, we can expend ourselves on a person who, by the following day, may come to seem uninteresting. But we feel responsible for what we may have said the night before, and wish to honor it.

the lie that tries to have us believe we are not inescapably alone in the world, and which, when we converse with someone, prevents us from admitting that it is not we who are speaking, that at such times we try to take on the semblance of other people, rather than be the self that differs from them.

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

The difference in the making of these sorts of sorrows is that they come from the outside world and take the shortest and most painful route to the heart. The image of the woman we love, though we think it has a pristine authenticity, has actually been often made and remade by us. And the memory that wounds is not contemporaneous with the restored image; it dates from a very different time; it is one of the few witnesses to a monstrous past.

Wenn man etwas tut, um anderen zu gefallen, kann es nicht gelingen, aber bei den Dingen, die man tut, um sich selbst zu zufriedenzustellen, besteht immer die Aussicht, dass sie auch das Interesse von anderen wecken.

Ve gözya?lar?m? silerken de, büyüdü?üm vakit di?er insanlar?n anlams?z hayatlar?n? taklit etmeyece?ime ve bahar geldi?i zaman, e?er Paris'te olursam, davetlere gidip türlü saçmal?klar dinleyece?ime, k?rlara gidip açan ilk akdikenleri görece?ime söz veriyordum...

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

the only truth is that every human being is a small island. You can build bridges, but you'll always be an island and everything else is a lie.

Qué es lo que te atrae de ese mundo? Que es real, le contesté, que está vivo y agregué con cierta tristeza que no pude disimular, y supongo que lo vivo duele.

Wie weet, flitste 't door mijn brein, of mensen, zo gemoedloos als ik, niet altoos de gewaarwording hebben, dat elke gevoelsuiting van anderen een aanstellerij of een overdrijving is. Ja, misschien acht iedereen zijn evenmens, die hij niet begrijpt en dus niet natuurlijk kan vinden, min of meer een acteur.

La verdadera felicidad no se encuentra ni en el jardín ni en la cocina, y no viene de los pájaros ni siquiera de este, ni del otro lado de la verja donde parece que la hierba es más verde. Surge del interior de cada uno de nosotros cuando conocemos la verdad de las cosas.

Great chefs have three things in common: first, they accept and respect mother nature as a true artist; second, everything they do is an extension of them as a true person; and third, they give you insight into the world they were born into.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

to encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.

Authentic Christian leaders boast in weakness, not strength.

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.

she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.