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Quotes About Authenticity

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
~ Richard P. Feynman
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
~ Aleister Crowley
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
~ Ann Druyan
We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third
~ Alexander Boldizar
It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.
~ Sépi
It is not so much being all that we dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering our being.
~ Sépi
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England
~ C.G. Jung
Quality is better than quantity.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I'd rather be known as a freak than a science project.
~ B. Mauritz, Project E.D.E.N.
Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories... as well as mine.
~ Megan Duke, Without Me
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
~ Belinda McBride
If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.
~ Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
Roxanne Bland, The Underground
~ Reality is highly overrated.
Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.
~ Misha Collins
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.
~ Jennifer Garner
I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.
~ Farhan Akhtar
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you.
~ Vanilla Ice
It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.
~ Emil Zatopek