Quotes About Authenticity

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Worrying about how you look to others is what makes you less of a man... If you think that having my wife in breeches has taken anything away from my ability with a sword, you can test that theory later...

I don't know if you have ever experienced the suffocating confinement of others' expectations on your life, but it is a very difficult burden to bear.

The Bible has a lot to say about our mouths, our lips, our tongues, for our speech betrays us. What is down in the well will come up in the bucket. –VANCE HAVNER

She read it over one last time, not really satisfied, but it was the truth. Even if it still had some scratch-outs.

I felt like a real girl.

So you want to be mean and fake and thoughtless?" I looked up at her angry face, then looked away. "No. Normal." "Normal sucks!" she roared. "People love you because you're Melody, not because of what you can or cannot do. Give us a little credit." "I want

the motion was authentic, it was from another place, it was planetary, it was model-of-the-solar- systemic.

If I had to see my face while I am writing this, I would not write it. When I was a child, I was encouraged to speak from behind a tree as if I were the tree, or speak as if up from out of the ground, or, as a white adult, to speak out from within a white adult—how easy that has made my life is almost invisible to me.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters.

To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from—what kind of family brought us into this world," Josie said softly. "We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

Why had the counterfeit timbre of his voice rung true to me? What had prompted me to believe a man who spent most of his life dissembling? Why had I, usually so suspicious, become so credulous and simpleminded in his presence? Was it just that I had wanted to hear someone tell me he loved me? Was it just that the words he spoke, the vows he swore, were so freighted with sweetness that they would have seemed true no matter who spoke them?

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

It is easier to see who is real and truthful and who is pretending for nefarious reasons. While it can feel lonely to realize this piece of life, it is important to spend this alone time, to find a deeper place within oneself.

Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I'm the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.

Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

You don't have to be hot to be beautiful.

When you feel the genuine love of God, you no longer feel a false responsibility to religious acts, but you feel real responsibility to love.

As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.