Quotes About Authenticity

Be a voice, not an echo.

É difficile sapere cosa sia la verità, ma a volte è molto facile riconoscere una falsità

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

Un om ar trebui s? caute ceea ce este, nu ceea ce crede c? ar trebui sa fie.

Be yourself for a while, even it's hurt.

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me—no good.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "A

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

good she had been. Not nice, not merely molto simpatico – how charmingly and effectively these foreign tags assist one in calling a spade by some other name! – but good. You felt the active radiance of her goodness when you were near her…. And that feeling, was that less real and valid than two plus two?

Do you know what it's like, he asked at length, to feel that nothing is quite real -- including yourself? Susila nodded. It sometimes happens when one's just on the point of discovering that everything, including oneself, is much more real than one ever imagined. It's like shifting gears: you have to go into neutral before you change into high.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

I'd rather be myself...Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.