Quotes About Authenticity

Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive.

As I've said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don't need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don't need a form of faith

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

Self-improvement is important, but it needs to be conducive to your happiness. If an ambition will not make you or those you care about any happier, then there really is no point in striving to be someone else. You should carefully consider your reasons for the ideal self you construct and then select goals and ambitions that are sensible and conducive to your happiness.

trying to force yourself to be different never really works.

You can trust your own experiences more than your desires.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

I've realized that prayer can become the occasion for a good bit of unintentional dishonesty with myself, or maybe an escape from my own messy reality.

when, in our contemporary idiom, "talking" about compassion becomes more important than "walking" in compassion – then words show their ever-lurking danger.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

We do not need a bodyguard of lies. We can afford to present ourselves in the totality of our acts.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

One time when a group of dignitaries was visiting, Elsa implored Albert to dress up. He refused, stating that if they wanted to see him, he was there, but if they had come to see his clothes, they were in the closet.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Nemá smysl zlobit se na n?koho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.

Attractiveness demands an ease of being. It's comfortable and relaxed while bearing the mark of individuality.