Quotes About Authenticity

But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

No use in trying to please everybody. No use in trying to please critics. Live under you own hat. Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember- pinewoods are just as real as pigsties, and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

She could never, in any words, deny her love for Teddy. It was much a part of herself that it has a divine right to truth.

This book may or may not succeed. I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.

ZaÅ'o?yÅ'am jeszcze nowÄ… stalówkÄ™, ?eby dopisa?, ?e CiÄ™ kocham za to, ?e nie jesteÅ› taki nadÄ™ty jak doktor Carter i za to, ?e nie masz odstajÄ…cych uszu jak Johnny. A przede wszystkim za to, ?e jesteÅ› Gilbertem!

Quando aprendemos que a linguagem nos foi dada para que possamos esconder nossos pensamentos, nos tornamos menos interessantes.- Anne

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Ma che finzione! Realtà, realtà, signori! Realtà!

We act that rôle for which we have been cast, that rôle which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

Perché nulla è più complicato della sincerità. Fingiamo tutti spontaneamente, non tanto innanzi agli altri, quanto innanzi a noi stessi; crediamo sempre di noi quello che ci piace credere, e ci vediamo non quali siamo in realtà, ma quali presumiamo d'essere secondo la costruzione ideale che ci siamo fatta di noi stessi.

For you can only know yourself when you strike an attitude: a statue: not alive. When one is alive, one lives and does not see himself. To know one's self is to die. The reason you spend so much time looking at yourself in that mirror, in all mirrors, is that you are not alive; you do not know how to live, you cannot or do not want to live. You want too much to know yourself; and meanwhile, you are not living.

Ma perché si dev'essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l'uno di fronte all'altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci?»

Quanti conservano la beata regolarità delle esperienze non possono immaginare quali cose possono essere reali o verosimili per chi viva fuori d'ogni regola, come appunto quell'uomo lí.

Humans are born to discover their own purpose, not to have some mockery of it handed to them. They are born to become magicians.

Mabel's skills as an actress who is the first to believe her words as they issue from her mouth.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean. Charlie to Beth

funny thing about people. The ones who seem strong and mouth off the most, or bully others, are usually the ones most terrified and weakest inside. And the ones who seem quiet and speak their fears, appearing the weakest, are often the strongest under it all.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.