Quotes about Authenticity
One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.
— Paulo Coelho
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!
— Paulo Coelho
The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
— Paulo Coelho
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
— CS Lewis
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
— Bruce Lee
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
— Dolly Parton
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
— Marty Rubin
Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.
— John Maxwell
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
— Mark Twain
While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.
— Charles Swindoll