Quotes About Authenticity

I wasn't great. My stump speech was stiff, heavy on policy speak, short on inspiration and humor. I also found it awkward to talk about myself. As an organizer, I'd been trained to always stay in the background.

then, she knew better than most that the face a person chose to show the world wasn't always the real one. Everyone had a story. Not everyone wanted to share.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don't.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." — Gospel of Thomas

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful If not, it can't be helped.

Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.

Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Adah inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It's an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had manes they would bristle exactly like a growling dog's. We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. There's no sense pretending.

One thing I learned from Mr. Armstrong while striving heartily to remain uneducated: a good story doesn't just copy life, it pushes back on it. It's why guys like Chartrain wear their clothes too big and their teeth edged with gold, why Mr. Dick puts words on kites and sends them to the sun.

The thing about Angus. We both had our crap to live with, and her way was to give no shit whether you liked how she was doing it, or not. But if I wanted to be a different type person and try for popular, she wasn't going to stand in my way. She was going to help. Not very usual.

The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.

A select group of friends and I have formed a secret slut society. We wear trousers, we have fascinating work, and it's possible that the dust bunnies under our beds could be breeding dust bison.