Quotes about Authenticity

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.