Quotes about Authenticity

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —

Truth does not blush.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Our own life has to be our message.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.

To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is rather that of an eye specialist than of a painter. A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it, an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is.