Quotes About Authenticity

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

I don't want the void. I don't want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

When the topic of pseudonymous composition arises, I like to ask my students whether all those albums issued under the name of Bob Dylan for the last fifteen years can possibly be the work of the same person who performed "Highway 61 Revisited.")

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Love is a fake!" Olson was blaring. "There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that's all!

Why be your real self when you can be something really worthwhile?

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so.

Yeah, they told me, just be yourself ... so I did. Maybe that was the problem.

The creation of an authentic work of art, the creation of an authentic life - they are one and the same.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

I didn't think he was a very 'nice' person,' says Chichilnisky [about Jeff Bezos]. 'I liked him, but he was not warm. I'm not criticising him, not a bit. It was like he could be a Martian for all I knew. A well-meaning, nice Martian.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

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