Quotes About Authenticity

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.

I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

The best people to love are the ones that you don't have to try to love.

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Più profondamente, si è se stessi, un po' come diceva Friedich Schiller (1759-1805), l'uomo è veramente uomo quando gioca (e la donna anche).

Il postmoderno ritiene che basti sostenere che tutto è socialmente costruito per immunizzarsi dall'attrito del reale.

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.

At my age, a man husbands his resources. He says nothing that he does not really mean.

And his face—the way he laughed—why he didn't look like no fool at all, boys. But just as if he'd waked up!

At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

Man kann alles erzählen, nur nicht sein wirkliches Leben; – diese Unmöglichkeit ist es, was uns verurteilt zu bleiben, wie unsere Gefährten uns sehen und spiegeln, sie, die vorgeben, mich zu kennen, sie, die sich als meine Freunde bezeichnen und nimmer gestatten, daß ich mich wandle [...].

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Es stimmt nicht einmal, daß ich immer nur mich selbst beschrieben habe. Ich habe mich selbst nie beschrieben. Ich habe mich nur verraten.