Quotes about Authenticity

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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?