Quotes about Authenticity

He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

You will have many ups and downs in life, but what is most important is that you remain "true to yourself." Then, as Shakespeare said, "thou can'st not then be false to any man.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.