Quotes About Authenticity

Our truest self is often the person we allow no one else to see—who we are when we are alone. In the real world, we edit. We compromise and prevaricate.

At twenty-three, Johnny didn't smile without reason or waste time on people he found insincere.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

There are times when all the lies you have told about yourself to yourself just fall away. In your twenties, you tell yourself the lie that you are unusual, unprecedented, and interesting. You do this largely by purchasing things or stealing things. You adorn yourself with songs and clothes and borrowed ideas and poses. In your thirties, you tell yourself the lie that you are still in your twenties.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what's behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

get your customers to know, like, and trust you more.

No one is more surprised than I that I turned out to be who I am.

Quiero seguir siendo como soy, no como era».

Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real.

Cualquiera puede representar cualquier cosa a la luz del día. Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real.

Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

You can be twice as tasty without the show. Just do the business and piss off before you're spotted.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

anoscetia the anxiety of not knowing "the real you.

fitching v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good-wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour a book in maddening little chunks, because it resonates at precisely the right frequency to rattle you to your core, which makes it mildly uncomfortable to be yourself.

skidding v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt.

zielschmerz n. the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.