Quotes about Authenticity
Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all
- William Goldman
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.
- Christina Ricci
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.
- Henri Nouwen
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.
- Henri Nouwen
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sorrow makes men sincere.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher