Quotes about Authenticity

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

True friends stab you in the front

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment — how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Truth has no temperature.

You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often

I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.