Quotes About Authenticity

Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.