Quotes About Authenticity

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster.

I don't want a sharp chick who quotes Kerouac; I just want to hear my old lady say, "Get up and fix the toilet, it's still making noise.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different.    ââ'¬â€JAMES BORG I

Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different.    ââ'¬â€JAMES BORG

It is more important that our churches have tables that are relationally correct than liturgically correct. Rules aren't "truth"; we don't follow out of slavish obedience to something absolute. We follow preestablished rules because we want to signal our love of community….

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the inside, trapped in there with all my wounds and fears. But I was no longer me on the outside.

Oh, Ruth. I wish we had our own words to describe ourselves, to connect us." Ruth stood up and opened the broiler. "I don't need another label," she sighed. "I just am what I am. I call myself Ruth. My mother is Ruth Anne; my grandmother was Anne. That's who I am. That's where I come from." I shrugged. "I don't want another label either. I just wish we had words so pretty we'd go out of our way to say them out loud.

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We're all shitty little snowflakes, dancing in the universe.

I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir" said Alice, "because, I'm not myself you see.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!

You're not the same as you were before, he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

what you would seem to be—or if you'd like it put more simply—Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of that is—'Be what you would seem to be'—or, if you'd like it put more simply—'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

simply—Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.