Quotes About Authenticity

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

For me and others who have attended the sessions, as well as for the abductees themselves, it is this intensity of recovered emotion that lends inescapable authenticity to the phenomenon.

It seems clear to me at this time that we are not dealing with "false" or confabulated memories.

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.

I felt like a fraud because I could not do anything in the normal way. I couldn't complete school. I couldn't "advance through the ranks." I couldn't "do it by the book." And I always ignored the rules.

don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy

You cannot get rid of the positive and negative balance. If you try to put on a facade for the world about how positive and upbeat you are, there will be chaos in your private life or your personal health.

The more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style, the less we find underneath.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

In the time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore. "You're faking," she said. "No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.

Although I'm sure you're not an impostor.

What I understand," he said, "is that there is very little about you that is excellent and that Aseikh is a term of honor. There's nothing honorable in a man who hides his face behind a blue woman's hanky.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others.