Quotes About Authenticity

Es ist immer einfacher, über die Dinge zu reden, die uns nicht wirklich berühren.

I am too honest to pretend to feelings I don't have. I am happy when I make you happy and when you do not trouble my happiness.

jak?e ja b?d? umiera?, kiedy nie ?y?am ja wcale?

It behooves us to think of what may happen to the spirit of the child who is condemned to grow in conditions so artificial that his very bones may become deformed.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Real men, she decided then and there, wore well-worn flannel, and they never tucked it into their jeans.

love that had yet to be tested but was nonetheless true.

You have to go through successive diluting and crystallization to find your true light.

but embarrassment.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

Auténtico es quien se comporta con humanidad. Quien se maneja solo a partir de los instintos acaba asemejándose a una bestia, que carece de corazón.

veces nos da miedo enfrentarnos con la realidad de nuestra alma. Decía Goethe: «¿Conocerme a mí mismo? Si lo hiciera, saldría corriendo espantado».

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

I wish it could have been otherwise. But in the end … this is part of our past, whether we are proud to admit it or not. Whatever our place is to be in the world, it must be a place we can claim with honesty, not one we slip into on the basis of a lie.

I virkeligheden maskerede hvert eneste ord, jeg ikke kunne udtale, et område, som jeg nægtede at trænge ind på. Og hvert eneste ord, jeg glædede mig ved at udtale, angav et område, der passede mig godt.

Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel