Quotes about Authenticity

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own belief, and if he does so he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

I sat there thinking about how all real music has to be born in the human spirit. Well, these ballads surely had been. There was something childlike and basic about them, an absence of sham or pretense.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'