Quotes About Authenticity

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

You can't supply some other adult with something they don't have. Any more than you can sustain a relationship by offering up your sense of yourself as a kind of bribe. In the end, everyone loses.

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can't change

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

All gold does not glitter.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.