Quotes About Authenticity

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.