Quotes About Authenticity

You deserve to be happy and you deserve to be you. One True Love. Love

put his hands through her hair when he kissed her. Now it wasn't honey blond, it was just hair, messy, in-need-of-a-wash, bed-head hair. It matched the rest of her, the tired lines in her forehead, the dark shadows under her eyes, the paleness in her cheeks.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right. -Sarah Lange

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

The greater your integrity, the more the many gates of knowledge and the real truths of existence will be revealed.

If you bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will strengthen you. If you don't bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will destroy you.

If you want to sing, sing. If you want to ride, ride. If you want to cook, cook. That's your path. Where it leads you is a mystery, but you follow that path. You can't force it. Life doesn't like being coerced.

Horses are honest. They don't hide their feelings. If they want to kick you, they kick you. People will wait for the most opportune moment, and then they kick you.

In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced of our own infallibility.

On the line beside Describe your family, I wrote, "Bad." What is your favorite subject in school? "None." List three of your favorite activities. "Soccer, ballet, and fighting." Two of those favorite activities were lies but one of them was the truth. I am fond of fighting.

And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong. You can fool a person. You can fool a dog. You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend. But you cannot ever fool a heart.

Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.

If you're unhappy, something important is going on. When your body hurts, it needs attention. When your heart hurts, it needs just as much attention. Your mind knows what you've been taught, but your heart knows who you really are.

Pride is a thin substitute for sincere, openhearted dignity.

You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.

Bitterness isn't as authentic as it looks. Believe it or not, one of the reasons we choose to feel bitter is because it's easier than feeling pain. It makes us feel tough. Being bitter gives the illusion that you're fighting, that you're not taking defeat lying down. But bitterness is a log jam. It won't let you get moving.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.

I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine. I am I and you are you. And if we find each other that's beautiful, if not, it can't be helped.

Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.

Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. Sydney J. Harris

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.