Quotes About Authenticity

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

I walk with Rafe to the End of the Rainbow. With his wild ginger hair and beard flattened by the rain, he looks like a wet haystack. He catches me grinning at him. "Well, you don't look like any GQ guy yourself," he says, and then we're laughing like maniacs while the rain pours down on us.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

On ne se refait pas; il faut s'utiliser tel qu'on est. Ça ne s'adapte pas toujours. De là les peines.

La sociedad construida sobre el dinero destruye las cosechas, destruye a los animales, destruye a los hombres, destruye la alegría, destruye el mundo auténtico, destruye la paz, destruye las riquezas verdaderas

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

rien n'est beau en ce monde comme le visage d'une femme qui ne cherche pas à plaire.

But the goodness in the letter affected her now, and it occurred to her, not for the first time, that Mark had always saved the best of himself for the people he dealt with in his professional life, though perhaps—and this did strike her for the first time—she had done that as well.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

social media is not real life. Her photos, which looked like casual snaps, actually took several hours to set up and up to a hundred attempts to get right...

Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

Sentirse auténtico significa ser libre para desarrollar rasgos y potenciales que son predisposiciones innatas. Cuando somos aceptados y se nos permite ser auténticos, es posible tener autoestima y autenticidad a un mismo tiempo.

Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth --- moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.