Quotes About Authenticity

Truth in her purest form is simplest to understand. Truth is also the most beautiful shining entity in this world, unless and until people begin to use her as their weapon of choice to intentionally hurt others. In my view, Life without Truth is no life at all.

We know that all that glitters is not gold, but what is gold always glitters. Likewise all that seems beautiful is not good, but what is good is always beautiful. Your perception and reality can be dramatically different, so don't get fooled by appearances that are often deceptive. Always look deeper, and the true Beauty will reveal itself.

Wenn Sie die Wahrheit und nichts als die Wahrheit zu jeder Zeit, die Sie nicht brauchen, um die Spiele zu spielen und zu weben das Netz aus Lügen zu jeder Zeit. Under das ist der gr

What others think about you is the Perception, while what you know about yourself is the Reality. The Perception and the Reality would match perfectly - only if you are honest and truthful in your character, and transparent in your behavior. Transparency is the precursor to Trust, IMHO.

Your interactions with outside world are largely determined by how you feel about yourself. You see, unless and until you are feeling happy and comfortable about yourself, you can't be happy with others. You must accept yourself as you are in reality. Once you be in sync with yourself, you'll attain harmony with the world outside. Your happiness is truly in your own hands.

Many Black students report that to convey their message and have it received the right way, they cannot be emotional while speaking. Squelching their natural style of communication to conform to White talk was often described as humiliating. They described the psychological costs as being inauthentic, having sold out, not being true to the self, and a deep sense of losing one's own integrity.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle.

What are you doing?" "I'm, uh, acting normal." "No you're not. You're acting like someone pretending to be normal. Stop pretending and start acting, but don't act like you're not pretending, that'll make it worse.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Be that self which one truly is.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

You must become like yourself.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.