Quotes About Authenticity

Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live.

I love insult, it's always honest.

Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.

I don't want anything from you but the fact of you.

But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play?

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie

He has made a show of being a devoted family man but his life has been carefully arranged so that he spends as little time with his family as possible.

Você pode fingir ser quase tudo que não é, há pouquíssimas coisas que de fato se pode ser.

If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The

I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.

The tone we want to avoid is melodrama.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.

Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others.

Understanding that we are forgiven and cleansed, and knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others. As long as we know who we are, we don't have to be overly concerned about what others think of us. Once we know who we are and accept ourselves, we no longer have anything to prove. When we have nothing to prove we can relax and be at ease in every situation.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

Be Yourself "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. —Galatians 6:4 For

We must learn to say no and not fear the loss of relationships. I have come to the conclusion that if I lose a relationship because I tell someone no, then I really never had a true relationship at all.