Quotes About Authenticity

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

When I decided I was a boy, I realized that if I wanted to pass, I'd have to learn to walk differently, talk differently, dress differently, basically act differently than I did as a girl. But why did we need to act at all?

If you don't know who you are, how is anybody else supposed to get to know you?

When a man and woman were in love and spent their time kissing and babbling nonsense, they really didn't get to learn much about each other. They came to learn every line in each other's face, every trick of breathing and kissing and sighing – but nothing else, nothing real, nothing on the inside, about which knowledge was paramount.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

There was too much talk and most of it unnecessary and most of it lying. Alone on the desert he felt he could reach to something, something he could never get to anywhere else, something that belonged to the beginning and made everything else that happened in between of no importance.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

They were looking for lovable women. Stella would be the first to admit that she failed on that front. She was too awkward, too outspoken, too argumentative. Too peculiar.

Life is so much easier if we get these little truths out of the way, don't you think?

Life has lots of genuine-sounding simulated answers waiting to be snatched up by gullible takers.

laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

Or at least, he thought they were specially made, until we played a gig and he saw someone wearing exactly the same kaftan as him. He stopped in the middle of a song and started shouting angrily at him – 'Where did you get that shirt? That's my shirt!' This, I felt, rather ran contrary to the kaftan's associations with peace and love

the more removed you become from the person you're naturally supposed to be – the harder you're making your life and the less happy you become.

La escritura siempre ha de ser valiente, aunque a costa de eso una se muestre desnuda.

Mi barrio es en sí mismo un país para viejos. Y para gente madura. Y para jóvenes que no necesitan estar rodeados de otros jóvenes sino que disfrutan de este ambiente residencial en el que nada es cool pero (casi) todo es auténtico.

But it's easier to say 'I love you', than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

Trying to be so bad is bad enough Don't make me laugh by talking tough Don't put your heart out on your sleeve When your remarks are off the cuff

Don't put your heart out on your sleeve, When your remarks are off the cuff - Riot Act from Get Happy

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.