Quotes About Authenticity

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

He knew that in a sense he was a word, as Ruth had been a word to this woman by simply being herself. A word of presence—I am with you. I feel your suffering. I hear your cries beneath your smiling face and your statements so calculated to shock. I grieve with you, and I grieve in your place, as you will not allow yourself to grieve, because you think there is nothing beyond grief.

Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood?

Around us she didn't bother with English at all, and in Indian her words poured like thick whiskey that had never seen water, like hootch straight from the barrel.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

If you want to be a real person living in the real world, the first thing you must do is get off the grid. Take the first brave step and delete your Facebook profile. After all, you surely wouldn't want the words carved on your headstone to be: "I was registered with Facebook. I had 101 online friends (and I even knew a few of them). My current mood is: Sad.

And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

This loss of self was precisely what Knight experienced in the forest. In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

Michael Finkel

Jefferies wrote, in his autobiography The Story of My Heart, that the type of life celebrated by society, one of hard work and unceasing chores and constant routine, does nothing but "build a wall about the mind.

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

Truth Potion

Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me

When Nouri said that he wanted to be with God, Ibn Arwani said: "First you must learn who 'you' are. Then you must learn what it means to 'want.' What it means to 'be.' Then you must learn what 'God' is. Otherwise, it's just a game. A pretense.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.

Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.

The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

You cannot force change in others, you can only inspire change in others by being your awesomely self. The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

The secret of life is sincerity and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.