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Quotes About Authenticity

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
~ Laozi
Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid. Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be afraid.
~ Rumi
Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, "Here I am!"
~ Rumi
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.
~ Sark
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.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
~ Sia Furler
What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
~ St. Lucia
I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.
~ Teri Hatcher
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
~ Terry Gross
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
~ Tony Scott
i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?
~ Vanilla Ice
They do not truly love who do not show their love.
~ Vince Lombardi
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
~ William Penn
We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
~ Lenny Kravitz
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love who and what you are and what you do.
~ Louise Hay
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
~ Marie de France
I love a natural look in pictures.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.
~ Mary Donnelly-Haskell
Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
~ Matthew Arnold
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
~ May Sarton
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
~ Mignon McLaughlin