Quotes About Authenticity

Maybe being a "princess" isn't so great. Would you always wonder whether people liked you or whether they liked the things you could do for them.

Then I realized I smelled like horses and manure

I still find that a willingness to be honest—especially about things that one might be expected to conceal—often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

Communications like these can still be awkward, but a wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can generally be avoided by following a single precept: Do not lie.

It is simply astonishing how people destroy their marriages, careers, and reputations by saying one thing and doing another.

Many lives are almost scandal-proof. Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you?

Mentir es alzar una frontera entre la verdad en la que vivimos y la percepción que los demás tienen de nosotros.

To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one's beliefs. But candor offers no assurance that one's beliefs about the world are true.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he doesn't possess.

Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!

The world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it