Quotes About Authenticity

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

Mentalizing virtuously means being authentically interested and curious in exploring the richness of possible realities. Active questioning expresses curiosity, but should not be expected to yield an unequivocal answer, but progress towards a conceptualization of alternatives (Skårderud and Fonagy 2012

If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.

He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he'd always been, might he ever hope to find his other, truer self.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

He eyed Riven. "This gnoll is legitimate?" "I verified that independently," Riven said.

One always saw and sees through pretense.

When you spoke to her there wasn't any mystery. In herself she was all the explanation I felt she needed. And that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

in order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself.

One night on the road just after Alive! came out, a woman and I were lying under the sheets in a hotel bed. She turned to me, puzzled, and said, "My boyfriend told me you were gay." "Well, I guess that didn't work," I said. "Because it didn't keep you away.

I found Corso's book both interesting and compelling. A couple of times I asked myself if it could possibly be fiction, as was the case with The Life of Pi,8 the substitute book I had read the summer before. The answer was a firm no. I recognized too many names of military bases and generals to leave me in any doubt as to the book's authenticity.

You can't change a tiger by whitewashing its stripes.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.