Quotes about Authenticity

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay