Quotes About Authenticity

The Goal Is to Break Out, Not Blend In There are few times in your life when it isn't too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.

Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly

Do not try to be the best, be happy of who you are.

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That's genius.

people here have become the people they're pretending to be.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

True love is something seen and known by others.

The captains in Tier One were not poseurs. They didn't make speeches, didn't seek attention or acclaim, and were not comfortable wearing the cloak of power. Most of them took subservient roles and carried water for their teammates. In other words, they behaved precisely the way Gruenfeld describes. They won status by doing everything in their power to suggest they didn't deserve it.

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

For people my age, including me, if we don't post it, it never happened. People's

Perfection scribbled out or the imperfection that makes you, me, anyone perfect and complete because it includes the truth of our mortality. Get

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

I am trying to find myself in all of the chaos, find something that I can call me inside the screams and inside the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.

You should have been a poet. I was (Gesture towards his rags.) Isn't that obvious?

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.