Quotes About Authenticity

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

We laughed together. Our friendship was possible because Ivonne was wise without glitter, while I, too often, glittered without wisdom.

When people show you who they are believe them the first time

I knew I was given to dramatic overstatement, or was known to waffle about repetitiously. To further complicate matters, I was sincere. Sincerity badly stated elicits mistrust.

We have to go. Billie looked up from her drink and said, Speak for yourself. All I got to do is stay black and die.

I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest.

My mother said her friends told her that I had once been seen jumping on the street with my son and playing as if I were a child. She said, "No, she was not playing. She was just being a good mother.

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up [...] I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Mrs. Cullinan was right about one thing. My name wasn't Mary.

our people are in need of truth and I have tried and will continue to try to speak only truth to the people.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it & it slides through the brain & goes straight to the heart.

If your always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.

You look at me and tell me you think you're some goddamn obligation to me. You look at me and tell me that we're pretending when the connection between us is the most tangible, overpowering thing I've ever felt in my life. If this is pretending, then I damn sure don't want to know what reality is.

It's the same as if I just handed you a knife and offered you my balls, for God's sake. And I don't even give a fuck. Because I have no pride when it comes to you. There is nothing I wouldn't do or say to make you understand that I love you. I fucking love you. There, I said it. Do you believe me now? He sounded so pissed off and angry that the admission had been torn from him that she had to battle the smile forming on her lips.

Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. "You're real. You're real." She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn't hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was.