Quotes About Authenticity

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

The diffeence between a fake death and a real one is slim. Mara

Truth without love, isn't.

I was never meant to be this thing...

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

Then it's a deal. You and me. Together. Loving each other as best as we can. Imperfectly, but honestly,

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light.

Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe.

But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too?

So here it is. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Boyfriend #7 Juan Inskeep, Age Twenty-Five Gay.

Be the dress, she told herself. Be the bonnet, Jane. Stage fright, that's all this is. I'm just afraid of looking like a fool. So stop it. Admit that you are a fool already and do this so you can let it go.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Inside each of us is a desire to be loved, a desire to be chosen, called out of the crowd, and loved for who we are. Seeking these desires, we all become performers, morphing ourselves into whatever role may earn us a place in the hearts of those around us.

He used] as English accent, for no apparent reason except that it's perhaps easier to say what's most true when you can pretend you're someone else.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!

We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you've done. When you will not remember who you are or what you've done.

Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't?