Quotes about Authenticity

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

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;