Quotes About Authenticity

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I'.

And, after all, you've got to live." "Not that way," said Roark.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

If everything became 'artificial,' then nothing was 'artificial.

When it is possible to duplicate the one you love, there is no more loved one, there is only the mockery of love, and when it is possible to become anyone at all and hold whatever convictions you like, then you are already no one and can hold no convictions.

Not all the items are equally precious to me; some awaken cheerful memories, others bring to mind events full of dread and menace, but all—regardless—are evidence, full corroboration of the authenticity of my adventures.

Hemos llegado aquí tal como somos en realidad y cuando la otra parte, la parte que silenciamos, nos muestra esa verdad ¡no somos capaces de aceptarlo!

To a real elephant, and not a sheep, wolf, or gnu in elephant's clothing, you are not there. There is no You. There is no Is. There is only the Elephant. Don't you see how silly that

I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick— schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry

We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.

A true friend loves you when you are being kind and when you are PMS-ing all over the place. They may not love what you are doing, or the dragon you are manifesting, but they love you. They know who the true you is, and even in the midst of your living as an imposter to your very self, a friend calls you up and out. A friend sees who you are meant to be and beckons you to rise to the higher version of yourself.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.

His wife was a tiny woman who I can best describe as being very present. She was not a woman hiding, nor a woman afraid. She was a woman at rest, at home with herself and with all pistons firing. She was alive and beautiful.

No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls' lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don't live in a fantasy.

There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" said the brilliant Dr. Seuss.1

Ä°çinde bir parça kahkaha olmayan bir ciddiyet hakikaten hakiki olamaz.

I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations. They get that although I said I'd be willing to go to an art opening on Saturday night, by the time the weekend rolls around I can only muster up enough energy to watch The Voice and eat a bowl of cereal. I need friends who understand that my version of dressing up is putting on special-occasion flip-flops. Yeah, bitch, they're sparkly and fabulous, yet they can be worn to wash the car!

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst.

actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other set thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good.

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.

Do not cry for me, Jane--but carry me always in your heart, as one who loved you for that courage to be yourself, and not what convention would have you be. Your Rogue