Quotes About Authenticity

I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I'm not trying to script or water down. It's about wanting something real—even if it's messy and complicated.

right—secrets and lies are really the same thing

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Children are not good at living a lie. Children have too much energy, are too impatient, and ask too many questions.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

What's wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.

There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

She had never heard Artemis sound so warm, so sincere. Usually emotional displays were difficult for the boy and he stumbled through them awkwardly. This wasn't like him at all.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

If you find yourself acting to impress others, or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path.

CIRCUMSTANCES DON'T MAKE THE MAN, THEY ONLY REVEAL HIM TO HIMSELF

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If you win the adoration of others by pretending to be someone you're not, you may gain celebrity or high office—but you will lose out on the fulfillment of a life best-suited to your attributes and abilities.

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone with strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.

Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. Return and return again to what is essential and worthy. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

Así como el Sol no espera que las oraciones y conjuros se levanten, sino que resplandece y es bien recibido por todos: así que tú tampoco esperes aplaudir y gritar y alabar para cumplir con tu deber; no, haz el bien por tu propia voluntad, y serás amado como el Sol.