Quotes About Authenticity

I would have liked to be called a dreamer had I known how to dream. The sense of being an imposter, I understand, occurs naturally, and those who do not occasional feel so I find untrustworthy. I would not mind being taken as many things I am not: a shy person, a cheerful person, a cold person. But I do not want to be called a dreamer when I am far from being a real one.

I don't think truth ever tastes good to anyone's palate.

Stripped of audience, originality would be much less at ease with itself.

If you are only worried about not making a mistake then you will communicate nothing

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Yeah, it's easy to say stuff. But, meaning what you say is something else. Right, Aunt Mito?

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy.

Normal is a myth.

You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Art?k yaÅŸamak gerektiÄŸinin bask?s?n? duydum içimde. YaÅŸanacak hayat?m? yaÅŸamal?yd?m. BaÅŸtan aÅŸa?? maskaral?ktan bir ÅŸey olmasa da, gerçek hayat?mla hiç ilgisi bulunmasa da, art?k baÅŸlaman?n ve çaresiz ayaklar?m? harekete geçirmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti benim için.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

J'éprouvais le besoin de commencer à vivre. Commencer à vivre ma vraie vie ? Même si ce devait être une simple mascarade et pas du tout ma vraie vie, le temps était venu où il me fallait prendre le départ et s'avancer en traînant lourdement mes pas.

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

The other guys did not feel the need to understand themselves that in me was so compelling: they could carry out their personality with the greatest naturalness, while I had to play a part, and this required a considerable acumen and study

Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.

I was mistaking the fierce, impossible desire of not wanting to be myself for the sexual desire of a man of the world, for the desire that arises from his being himself.

The reluctant masquerade had begun. At about this time I was beginning to understand vaguely the mechanism of the fact that what people regarded as a pose on my part was actually an expression of my need to assert my true nature, and that it was precisely what people regarded as my true self which was a masquerade.