Quotes About Authenticity

There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

The real thing's money and all the rest is a dream.

It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Petty unselfishness," she repeated. "I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learnt to be sincere—and, what's as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

It is only that people are far more different than is pretended. All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop. Here and there they have the matter out, and it comforts them.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

No one may abuse the truth with impunity.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Mislim da u po?etku svi pisci pišu kako bi bili junaci romana. Ali kasnije pišemo kako ne bismo mogli biti junaci romana.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

And yet what a man is speaks louder than what he does.

I know the private was a grunt just by his attitude. You've got to love those guys; they're the real people of life. And they're hit on, shit on, tramped on, and fucked with forever.

Hemingway said that the best thing a writer can have is "a built-in shit detector.

Preaching the truth without love is like giving someone a good kiss when you have bad breath.

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.