Quotes About Authenticity

A Mountain Man in Drag By PM White

truth is reality

They are not burdened by any need to hide. They do not have to slink around in the shadows. They do not have to construct new lies to hide old ones. They need waste no effort covering tracks or maintaining disguises. And ultimately they find that the energy required for the self-discipline of honesty is far less than the energy required for secretiveness. The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again.

You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you.

If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

The perception that we are loving when we fall in love is an illusion. Real love does not have its roots in a feeling of love. Real love often occurs when a feeling of love is lacking.

The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.

genuine love transcends the matter of cathexes. When love exists it does so with or without cathexis and with or without a loving feeling.

The highest forms of love are inevitably totally free choices and not acts of conformity.

Third, the decision to withhold the truth should never be based on personal needs, such as a need for power, a need to be liked or a need to protect one's map from challenge.

Some basically unloving parents, in an attempt to cover up their lack of caring, make frequent professions of love to their children, repetitively and mechanically telling them how much they are valued, but not devoting significant time of high quality to them. Their children are never totally deceived by such hollow words. Consciously they may cling to them, wanting to believe that they are loved, but unconsciously they know that their parents' words do not match up with their deeds.

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

desconfia sempre dos que mais falam, sejam homens ou mulheres. (Linha reta e linha curva)

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Hitler lied shamelessly about himself and about his enemies. He convinced millions of men and women that he cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have willingly sacrificed them all. His murderous ambition, avowed racism, and utter immorality were given the thinnest mask, and yet millions of Germans were drawn to Hitler precisely because he seemed authentic. They screamed, "Sieg Heil" with happiness in their hearts, because they thought they were creating a better world.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.