Quotes About Authenticity

There's nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

I have a great horror of shams on the stage--of what will not bear close inspection--of what is not real. I never use spangles, tinsel, and cheap theatrical glitter--it offends my artistic sense. I always employ hand embroideries in bullion and silk, and will have nothing to do with the generally used appliqué embroideries on the stage, and I have found that what is the best always has the best effect, whether looked at from a distance or near at hand.

I regret that I cannot prove that I am a natural blonde.

It's because you finally let yourself be you. The you I know you are. The you who has something to say and finds her own way to say it. Not loud, but determined to be heard.»

For the first time in my existence, I tell the truth, and I am greeted with lack of belief. This is the universe laughing at me.

I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not punk, not hipster, not skank, not prude, just a half-assed band geek -- no one can believe I'd do anything so well defined as lie. I like my new superpower.

Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a real Texas Woman. The single truly essential ingredient that every real Texas Woman must possess is this: she must know that she is exactly as special as the state she comes from.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.