Quotes About Authenticity

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

When you love someone you love him as he is.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.