Quotes about Authenticity

Men, it's okay to be a man!

Be happy in your own skin.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

And so the impulses of nature are what give authenticity to life, not obeying rules come from a supernatural authority, that's the sense of the Grail.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME!

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.