Quotes About Authenticity

His old identity has been discarded, and his new identity is to be found only on the screen. In the expanse between these two poles lies the reality of the self.

All is pretense, but we must be careful what we pretend to be, because that is what we must become.

through life in his vibrant plumage, advertising his presence, hiding nothing, but when he closed his front door behind him the artificial light in his eyes was suffocated, and the face of the Gray Man was pendent like a dead moon in the blackness of his pupils.

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or — worse yet — leaving the blanks blank?

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

The longer you have to be somebody else, the harder it is to convince everyone you are you.

You're not in this life for things to go well. You're in this life to be your deepest heart in all that goes well and in all that doesn't.

It is tenderness that is the real you. All of the rest is just packaging.

You are real only where you are given to love.

Let what is most delicate in your heart live boldly.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.

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If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.

The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about.