Quotes About Authenticity

Now I've offended him. Well, if it does him good, I'm glad, if it makes him hate me, I'm sorry, but it's true, and I can't take back a word of it -Amy

never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.

Not being a genius, like Keats, it won't kill me," she said stoutly, "and I've got the joke on my side, after all, for the parts that were taken straight out of real life are denounced as impossible and absurd, and the scenes that I made up out of my own silly head are pronounced 'charmingly natural, tender, and true.' So I'll comfort myself with that, and when I'm ready, I'll up again and take another.

She did not answer, for truth she could not, and falsehood she would not, give him.

we must each be what God and nature makes us. We can't change it much--only help to develop the good and control the bad elements in us.

I'm not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticize my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. I'm too happy to care what anyone says or thinks, and I'm going to have my little wedding just as I like it.

it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's

I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to. I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts, rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burnt hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are really silly enough to wear them. and I think jo was quite right.

A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest.

Remember sarcasm is forbidden and sincerity the order of the day. You are country folks now, and it will do you good to try their simple, honest ways for a few days.

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.

Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm.

If you fishin' for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend... But if you is lookin' for a real friend, then I'll be one. Forever.

lo que está oculto es para nosotros los occidentales lo más verdadero que lo que es visible

But I'm so tired, Winsome said, of Meeting other people. I want other people to meet me.

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Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."1

No hay nada ridículo en la #Intimidad, no hay nada escatológico ni repudiable en ese lento fuego doméstico de sudor y de fiebre, de mocos y estornudos, de pedos y ronquidos.