Quotes About Authenticity

We are the way we're supposed to be.

while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.

I craved . . . an ineffable state of being I can only describe as domestic integrity. This integrity has something to do with being able to not feel like an imposter in your home and, therefore, in your life.

the time I watched a knife fight outside the window of the studio in Greenwich Village, the time I got an HIV test at a Department of Health free clinic in order to prove some kind of point to myself (other than that I didn't have HIV, which I already knew).

I was not myself, but if I was not myself, how did I know that? It was as if the old me, the authentic me, were inside, struggling to break free of the forces that had inhabited its body. The ghost within.

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!

Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?

Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

Don't make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

Face the truth or the truth will face you!

For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!

Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.

Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

Never hide yourself! When you say something, don't be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under it! Be courageous enough not to use any mask; don't forget that hiding among the bushes is the affair of the cowards! Let the Sun shines on your face and everyman see you!

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!