Quotes about Authenticity

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

But I don't want to be a different girl, said Emily decidedly. She had no intention of lowering the Starr flag to Aunt Ruth. I wouldn't want to be anybody but myself even if I am plain. Besides, she added impressively as she turned to go out of the room, though I may not be very good-looking now, when I go to heaven I believe I'll be very beautiful.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady's jewels.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace