Quotes About Authenticity

am far more Real than the world you see around you.

To follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your desire to please other people. However, your closeness to Me will bless others by enabling you to shine brightly in this dark world.

Sometimes it's not good for people to find out who you really are.

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

The irony is that the more they achieve and the better they do, the less people are inclined to believe them, and the more they feel forced to then stay in the closet.

Permission to Proceed:

You have to take a leap of faith and believe that living an authentic life of personal power and pride is more important than the fear and pain that have been holding you back.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.

Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we're not afraid of who we are, but my God we're looking up at the stars.

He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

I wasn't sure how I'd gone from feeling sorry towards Jeane to baiting her into a full-on strop-attack. It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and … and … she reacted so beautifully. You just lit the fuse, stood well back and watched her explode.

She was finally beginning to understand that her fixation on being a size ten had been another excuse to spend her life in preparation, instead of living it and taking risks and maybe getting hurt in the process.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

Sometimes it frightens me how much I enjoy behaving like a complete cow.

Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

Be simple and sincere.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

She was what we used to call a suicide blond — dyed by her own hand.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.