Quotes About Authenticity

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

The man in the corner hollered, Tell it all!

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

Advice to Readers Good friends who come to read this book, Strip yourselves first of affectation; Do not assume a pained, shocked look, For it contains no foul infection, Yet teaches you no great perfection, But lessons in the mirthful art, The only subject for my heart. When I see grief consume and rot You, mirth's my theme and tears are not, For laughter is man's proper lot.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.

The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.

That's almost like telling lies," she said. "And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they're vulgar.

You are real, aren't you?" he said. "I have such real dreams very often. You might be one of them.

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an' spick an' span, would you? he said. It's nicer like this with things runnin' wild, an' swingin' an' catchin' hold of each other. Don't let us make it tidy, said Mary anxiously. It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.

It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.

Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts

Authentic funkiness mean never trying to hard -Janie

This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

This was not a fairy tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you.

When we don't lay claim to our creative impulse to share what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us, an agony festers from self-diminishment, and another thorn is added to the daily existence that encircles us.

From the time she is very young, all Plum wants is this: to be loved for who she is with complete and awesome devotion. She tries to dress herself the way she feels on the inside so that the love of her life will recognize her easily.

From the time she is very young, all Plum wants is this: to be loved for who she is with complete and awesome devotion. She tries to dress herself the way she feels inside so that the love of her life will recognize her easily.

Only something we all know but don't always remember—'Know yourself.' And don't try to be anyone else." "OK!

a relationship that wasn't built on honesty and trust wasn't any kind of relationship at all.