Quotes About Authenticity

The third Law, the Art of Allowing, says: I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

you would not want to mask your own feelings, pretending to feel different from how you really feel. The only way you can do so is to change your vibrational offering, and when you change your vibrational offering, the way you feel changes, too.

It seems to me I write what I see, paint what I am.

Dice que no la amo de verdad. Que digo que la quiero, que creo que la quiero, pero que no. He oído a más de uno decir que no quiere a alguien, ¿pero decidir por otro si ese otro lo ama o no? Con eso todavía no me había encontrado nunca.

It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

Every time he opens his mouth I have absolutely no idea what he's gonna say. He's the most honest person I've ever met. He's a quick study and rarely needs to make the same mistake twice. He really tries to learn, and does, and he makes me laugh, and the world's generally a lighter place when he's in my sight.

I personally don't think grand gestures are actually romantic. The most romantic moments of my life have been so subtle and small. A snowstorm breakfast, a walk, an accidental meeting. Whenever you start planning these grand things, 'I'm gonna pick the great flower from the top of Mt. Everest', you're already losing. You're trying too hard.

When we choose to share things, the question is whether we can do so without changing or sugar-coating what we are saying. For

Spiritual bypassing often adopts a rationale based on using absolute truth to deny or disparage relative truth.

Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself. It

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

How can I be honest with you," he said, "when you are not honest with yourself" "You are bound—some time—to reap what you have sown.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else.

I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.

Dévorer les livres, comme je l'ai fait depuis ma plus tendre enfance, n'est qu'une forme de paresse. Je laisse à d'autres le soin de s'exprimer à ma place. Je cherche partout la confirmation de ce qui fermente et agit en moi, mais c'est avec mes mots à moi que je devrais essayer d'y voir clair. (45)

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar.

An honest answer is like a warm hug.

Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalized behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.