Quotes About Authenticity

Hiçbir kusuru olmayan yerleri de insanlar? da sevmem. Gerçekten mükemmel bir insan?n hiç ilginç olmayaca??n? düÅŸünüyorum.

I have an ideal Sunday in my mind. Only, I am such a coward that I cannot translate it into the real, but must drift on with the current of conventionality. But I would like to go away on Sunday morning to the heart of some great solemn wood and sit down among the ferns with only the companionship of the trees and the wood-winds echoing through the dim, moss-hung aisles like the strains of some vast cathedral anthem. And I would stay there for hours alone with nature and my own soul.

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU

No sabes que solo los más tontos son los que hablan en serio todo el tiempo?

Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?

I don't know how to be me and how to be sexual at the same time.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

Att veta mer än som är nödvändigt, det är dårskap... tvivlar vi mer än som är nödvändigt så rycks maskerna av - och våra ansikten lyser spöklika och slappa i festskenet... vi får leta bland maskerna för att se vilka vi var - och gitter inte leta.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

It ain't a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while

I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore

and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

It's not WHAT you do for a living that brings career satisfaction. It's WHO you get to be while doing what you do that does.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life

We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —Groucho Marx

We knew each other so well by this point—knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

Meus problemas começavam quando eu tentava me encaixar na vida de outra pessoa, ainda mais quando isso significava desistir de uma parte de mim no processo.

transparent with you…" "I wouldn't have guessed." "We received a package yesterday with a zip drive of Owen's work emails. I had to verify they were real, and they are. He kept

She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.