Quotes About Authenticity

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Ich habe mich oft gefragt, ob wir die anderen sehen können, wie sie wirklich sind, ob wir sie je erkennen oder nur das in ihnen sehen dürfen, was sie selbst auch zulassen.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

There is always a suspicion...that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried, and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one's own authentic self has not been met or that some chances of unknown happiness completely different from any happiness experienced before have to been taken up in time and are bound to be lost forever if they continue to be neglected.

Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of "Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

When we know what we want, and see that our desires authentically reflect who and what we are, our self-esteem improves, and we find ourselves enjoying truly human interactions. The more effortlessly secure we are in being ourselves, the more we can afford to open up to others, and the more we can naturally act with generosity and magnanimity.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

But I have to resist the impulse to create memories suitable for framing.