Quotes About Authenticity

Don't we reveal ourselves slowly, in parts, to the people we are starting to love? Don't we pick and choose what we want them to see and when? Aren't we afraid to be judged or rejected because of who we are, at least a little at first, until we grow more intimate, feel safer beneath each other's gazes?

You are such an LBR.

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.

Love is accepting someone for who they are, not who they'll be once you change them. Because guys won't change unless they want to, and most of them don't want to. If you think otherwise, you're in for a shit-storm of disappointment.

People are most radiant when they let their inner beauty shine through.

For sure, I would much rather look as if I have it all together and never make mistakes. But as the Bible cautions us, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."12

I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the tow are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. that's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal. That's all.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.