Quotes About Authenticity

Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.

It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will see it doesn't belong to you: - That it came from your parents; - It came from your family; - It came from your society; - It came from your friends. And you bought into it. But it isn't yours. Holding on to something that isn't yours is called theft. Don't be a belief thief! Let go of what isn't yours.

Achievement is living your life to the fullest. Being you as best as you can. And the way you do that is by acting on your highest excitement. That's it. That's your purpose in life; that's your mission; that's the highest achievement; is to be you, the true you, as fully as you can and enjoy the ride. That's it.

All pain is the result of resistance to the natural self.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that--that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it.

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious.... I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

Forse essere a casa è questo, non avere il bisogno e nemmeno la pretesa di vedere tutto bello. Guardare le cose come sono, vederle intere, senza offenderle.

All'intervallo Donna Clara ha borbottato a lungo sui costumi di quelle ragazze che tutti vogliono prendersele per amanti perché son belle, ma poi la bellezza le dura niente, un attimo ed è fuggita e Bianca se è onesta, se pensasse a se stessa, in qualche modo, e se non sia ingiusto supporre che le ballerine debbano essere per forza leggere nella loro esistenza quotidiana come lo sono sul palcoscenico.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

You can't do anything to please anybody or say anything to please them or even dress so they'll be happy and give you a smile.

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other...

Incluso con mis amigas no soy realmente yo misma. En parte soy otra; tratando de encajar, de decir cosas apropiadas, de hacer las cosas requeridas, de estar en el lugar más indicado, de vestir como visten todos. A veces pienso que cada uno trata de ser la sombra de otro; compramos los mismos discos y hacemos como los demás, aunque no nos guste. Los muchachos son como robots, piezas en línea para el montaje, y yo no quiero ser un robot.

Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de verdad.

Por qué será tan difícil la vida? ¿Por qué no podemos ser como somos y que nos acepten como tales? ¿Por qué no puedo ser yo, sencillamente, tal como soy ahora, sin necesidad de concentrarme, de mortificarme sobre mi pasado y sobre mi futuro?

Lying – remembering beauty in truth.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.