Quotes About Authenticity

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?

It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

Do you love me for me?... I don't even love me for me.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.