Quotes About Authenticity

you have to discard the old moralities, values and belief structures, you have to look for what is authentic in yourself.

Make it all up. But make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway

The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

Write the truest sentence you know.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know

The remedy for "keeping something to oneself" is not "letting it all hang out," which is a modern-day perversion of pervasiveness.

Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.

Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?

The artisan soul is not about rebellion but about resonance.

Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience. Art becomes profound when it exposes us, explains us, or inspires us.

And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves.

Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to be a beautiful fiction.