Quotes About Authenticity

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

A good liar lies as little as possible.

It has honesty, integrity. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.

Don't copy. Create.

If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.

To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are…. Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….

The quantum field responds not to what we want; it responds to who we are being.

Ultimately, you will create transparency. When how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.

El peor hábito que puedes eliminar es el de ser el mismo de siempre y el mejor que puedes adoptar es el de expresar lo divino a través de ti. En ese momento es cuando moras en tu naturaleza verdadera y en tu identidad. Cuando moras en el yo.

Our purpose in life is not to be good, to please God, to be beautiful, to be popular, or to be successful. Our purpose, rather, is to remove the masks and the façades that block the flow of this divine intelligence, [our Inner Being, the Source within us] and to express this greater mind through us.

When your outward expression of self is equal to your inner self, you are headed to a new destiny.

When we sit for long enough not doing anything, we begin to feel something. That something is who we really are.

I believe in doing a job of work, not talking about it. I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing

Fear of the self... of both what we show the world on the outside and that which we know, ourselves, to truly be on the inside, can be a paralyzing notion.

It's so fucking cheap when people say I love you. It's a name to stick on a surge of hormones, with a little hint of loyalty thrown in. I've never liked saying it. Here's what I say: We're together, now and until the end. You have everything I need to be happy. You make me feel right.

Live pretty or die laughing, but don't you run. Don't you fucking run.

Was anything in all the world more heartrending than being found out by someone you wanted to love you?

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.

Eu acho isso a parte mais linda de todas. Tudo aquilo que você acha que te define é removido feito um embrulho de Natal. O Brilho te reduz à sua parte mais verdadeira, à sua melhor parte, à versão de você que vai mais fundo do que um nome ou do que o time de futebol para o qual você torce. E você adquire consciência de si mesmo como apenas uma folha numa árvore, e todos aqueles que você conhece e ama são as outras folhas.

You knew what was real not by its qualities but by its imperfections.