Authenticity Quotes

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change ...

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to...

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force ...

I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holida...

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it...

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can func...

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and...

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were...

The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in i...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabri...

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiri...

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live ...

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium ...

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplic...

Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its hist...

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent live...

Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect fo...

Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious...

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternati...

How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe tho...

I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exa...

Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of tw...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they s...

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. Th...

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we ...

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create c...

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo...

If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to...

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite t...

We can't pack down hurt, nor can we off-load it to someone else while maintaining our authenticity a...

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, ea...

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, ou...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to sho...

It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direc...

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so ...

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.