Quotes About Authenticity

You are who you are, and no one can change that. So be yourself, because no one can do it better.

Perseguida pelo medo da velhice, deixei envelhecer a nossa relação. Ocupada em me fazer bela, deixei escapar a verdadeira beleza, que apenas mora no desnudar do olhar. O lençol esfriou, a cama se desaventurou. Esta é a diferença: a mulher que tu encontraste aí, em África, fica bela apenas para ti. Eu ficava bela para mim, que é um outro modo de dizer: para ninguém.

Cada um de nós foi uma mentira, mas nós os dois fomos verdade.

Também eu me refiz de mentiras, como se a mentira fosse a pele que nos protegesse mas que, de tempo em tempo, nos tivéssemos que desfazer.

Se temos voz é para vazar sentimento. Contudo, sentimento demasiado nos rouba a voz.

It's a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there's no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Write the book description in third person and present tense. As if you're sitting face-to-face with a browser who just asked you what the book is about.

Classical philosophy holds that perpetual agreement with another person is incompatible with friendship. Because no two people can possibly agree on everything, someone who never expresses disagreement with you is acting insincerely - and true friendship requires sincerity above almost everything else.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

He wasn't afraid of being laughed at—but he wasn't being comical

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

In the presence of love, all that is false falls away.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

I know that," he said. "But what are you doing? You're giving me an actor playing a drunk. I'm paying you to be a drunk. You're trying to talk slurred and walk crooked. A real drunk is trying to speak clearly and walk straight." My wise and wily repertory theatre director had summed up movie acting in one line, and I remember it and use it to this day. My

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in.

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio—the union of true communion.

Ah yes, but unity can be authentic only if it is founded upon truth. We cannot pretend that there are two conflicting truths, both of which are right. This is madness. It destroys the interior unity of the human person and the meaning of personhood.