Quotes About Authenticity

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Cliff didn't know enough to write critical pieces for Films in Review, but he knew enough to know Hiroshima Mon Amour was a piece of crap. He knew enough to know Antonioni was a fraud.

You can't trust Melanie, but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying "Ain't that the truth

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

A messager deliverer deserves mor for work then fakes.

A mí me gustan las personas que dicen lo que piensan. Pero por encima de todo, me gustan las personas que hacen lo que dicen.

Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

An honest answer is an act of love.

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not.

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not. Its sources, spirit, and methods are alien to Reformed theology, piety, and practice.

Not that her life had been unhappy, it had just not been her life at all.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

An empty heart eats lies.

je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Never wear clothes that are bigger than you are unless you intend to grow into them. If you want to wear a great suit, either you believe it belongs to you or you'll look like you're thirteen and wearing your mother's clothes. Doesn't that make sense? It's the same in life. Never live a life too big for you. You either grow bigger to encompass it or shrink it to fit you.

There are two types of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.