Quotes About Authenticity

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

We are all blind thinking that life consists of possessing material goods, holding onto this, then that, getting to know one thing, then another, then trying desperately to ignore the fact that the whole process inevitably amounts to absolutely nothing. Life isn't a game where you have to possess and know as many things as possible. Rather, it is about reducing yourself to zero, living in a new and more authentic way.

She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

What does a row matter? Anything's better than deceiving each other. If a relationship can't stand up to the truth, then what sort of relationship is it? Anyway—' agitatedly, Meta twisted a length of scarf round her hand—'it doesn't matter any more.

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Don't let politeness interfere with truth

Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

n'ai obéi qu'à une exigence, d'ailleurs non formulée, celle de donner à entendre ma voix, et cela, si je puis dire, à mes propres oreilles : ma voix, comme si je craignais, après tant d'années consacrées à écouter les voix des autres, de perdre la mienne

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

L'amour véritable vient de nous seuls et ne requiert aucun retour.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

As your lover describes you, so you are.

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

todos sabem que o caminho para a verdadeira audácia passa sempre, primeiro, pelo fingimento.

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.