Quotes About Authenticity

Always Be Owned, Don't be Beautiful.

You are yourself

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower. Wendy

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.

The unnecessary burden of living a life of trying to please others, which is essentially impossible, nearly killed me.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

SUVs are named for exotic places we'll never go, like the Dodge Durango or the MGC Yukon. There should be truth in advertising: like calling them the Dodge Dubuque, or the GMC "I'm Going to 7-Eleven for a Moon Pie."

Sometimes I think the fear of dying is really a fear that you're not living the life you want.

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

We're afraid others will see our flaws, weaknesses and insecurities. We're afraid if others really knew us, they would reject us. We feel like fakes and frauds in a world that seems to have it all together.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

It's rare that people sail beautifully straight through their beautiful lives, always looking beautiful.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.

Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

If you wouldn't want your mother to buy the item or the service then don't sell it.

It isn't how loud or how quiet you worship; it's how much of your entire being you pour into every statement of adoration.

Kierkegaard's analysis of this "fear of freedom" is an intriguing one, pursued and expanded on by philosophers as different as Jean-Paul Sartre and Erich Fromm (1900–80). It can make individuals and whole societies "inauthentic". People, as individuals or en masse, are too often happy to "escape" this fear by retreating into an obedience to ideologies dictated by others.

So yes, saying "I don't know" is a good thing. Bullshitting your way through life is not dignified and over time it can never really work. Eventually people see through it and then are very likely to second-guess everything else you say going forward.

You probably don't want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you're a politician).