Quotes About Authenticity

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

This above all to thine own self be true.

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

To Thine Ownself Be True

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. ... And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

Dance like nobody's watching Love like you've never been hurt Sing like nobody's listening Live like it's heaven on earth

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

When aren't we acting?' he asked in his diary. 'When aren't we concealing? Would you like me to have been a fly on your wall yesterday? Did you do nothing shameful? Of course you did. The version of ourselves that we present to the world bears no resemblence to the truth. If we knew the truth about each other we could take noone seriously. There isn't one of us who could afford to be caught. That's all life is. Trying not to be found out.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

So if I'm not normal and you're not normal and they're not normal—why in the blue blazes do we all spend so much time pretending we are?

Get in there. Sing the song. Get out. I'm not big on a hundred takes and a thousand overdubs. My kind of singing isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant to reflect the imperfections of a human being like me. After a couple of takes, that reflection is pretty accurate.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

we had people who had authentic identity cards ask for the cards of people who had already died, but who had not yet been registered as dead by the registrar. This was a very safe way to help people get good identity cards. People who were seized often said that their card had been forged—which wasn't true—in order to protect the others.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.