Quotes About Authenticity

It's important to accept a happy life when it's presented to you. The only time you can go wrong is when you make a decision to please others and not yourself.

I take my cue from deeds, not words.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.

Facts speak plainer than words

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

Fine feathers don't make fine birds.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

Love, being in love, isn't a constant thing. It doesn't always flow at the same strength. It's not always like a river in flood. It's more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it's ebbing or flowing, it's always there, it never goes away. And that's the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

She is walking around the living room naked and

Görünmek istediÄŸin gibi ol.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

It has become routine to assume that the rewards of life are public and that our lives can be measured by how we are seen rather than what we do.

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they'd probably say they didn't. Yet that's not necessarily what they truly think. It's just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don't until they're allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance.