Quotes about Authenticity

The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The man who follows Christ in full, who denies himself and and dies to himself and to the world, can never, ever be a "bourgeois."

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. It humbles me that companies want me. It's a challenge to uphold their values and make their product look good. I take that personally.