Quotes About Authenticity

My mother wanted my sister and me to live a normal life. I always picked friends who weren't impressed with my family ties.

The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

I would not let anybody change me or put me in anything tight or anything 'til I felt it was safe or I felt like it.

I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I'm going to a club, I've got to throw on a big hoodie or something. And that's if you can get me into something tight in the first place.

The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

Memphis don't bluff. It's a tight knit community.

Typically, I'm put in high heels and a tight top, which is not my personality at all.

I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.

When I was doing the IPL (Indian Premier League), I was expected to wear tight dresses. It took me a really long time to understand that you don't have to fit into an outfit and you should be able to own what your put on.

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about what I wanted to become in life. I only thought about how I wanted to live my life. And I knew that the "how" could only be determined within me and by me.

Sit alone for five minutes and see what your life would be like if you were absolutely alone in this world. If there were nobody or nothing to compare yourself with, what would you truly long for? What would really matter to you if there were no external appreciation or critique? If you do this every day, you will become aligned with the longings of the life that you are, rather than the accumulated karmic mess that you believe you are.

Don't change yourself for someone, you're not living your life to impress anyone.

A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no matter how polished.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don't try to please anyone else, and don't be afraid of anyone.

Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.