Quotes About Authenticity

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.

Often, what makes certain people particularly attractive to us is that when we are really with them we experience ourselves as being more whole.

Kamu harus menjadi pribadi yang kamu inginkan, bukan pribadi yang diinginkan orang lain.

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Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone

I don't have casual sex, she said. He almost smiled. It was merely an expression in those pale eyes, rather than an actual movement of his mouth. My dear, I promise you there wouldn't be anything casual about it.

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

because that would be a lie. He was sorry they weren't spending the

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.

It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I

I wonder if that's how I look to others; like I'm normal and functional, too, when in fact, I feel completely emptied out.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.