Quotes about Authenticity

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

True love is something seen and known by others.