Quotes About Authenticity

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

Friendship is more important than truth.

I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people