Quotes About Authenticity

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love.

Well, he took dying as naturally as he took living. Like a man should. Like I hope to." Again he looked at the pictures in his mind. "No play-acting nor last words. He just told good-by to the boys as we led his horse under the limb

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

Nothing more, nothing less...

Y'know, swearing is just part of who we are – we're forever effing and blinding.

I hardly ever went to the AA [alcoholics anonymous] meetings. I've just never felt comfortable in those places. It's my worst zone. I'll get up and sing my heart out in front of two hundred thousand people at a rock festival, but when I've got to talk about the way I feel to people I've never met before, I can't do it. There's nothing to hide behind.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? That is that question that counts.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

No hay en toda ella un arbolito; la leña que quemamos es una yerba que tiene una cuarta de alto; las casas que vivimos, son todas cubiertas de paja [...] No le escrivo mas porque se me yelan los dedos".

Tsogyal, if you want to practice the Dharma in an authentic way, it is most important to cut your ties to unwholesome places, companions, and so forth. So give them up!

Just be who you want to be not what others want to see

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.

It's as though for just a few minutes her flawless exterior cracked open a bit, and I could see the love and hurt inside.