Quotes About Authenticity

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I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girls outward appearance, and into her soul.

It's about the person's soul, Lizzie, not the parts they have on the outside. You know that." I'd nodded. Because that's true. At least, that's how it's supposed to be.

We are perfect in our imperfection.

I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.

I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is. The King didn't sound frightened. Any minute, said Eddis, he will realise-- As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. How frightened she is.

The idea of loving someone no matter what they do is overrated, not to mention largely impossible.

No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.

If there's anything I've learned in twenty-five years, it's that the more honest you are about what you think, the more you sit in solitude with your own thoughts.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

Un mejor liderazgo también tiene que ser algo más que nuevos métodos y técnicas. Las herramientas son necesarias, pero lo que realmente precisamos es sustancia.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

Unfortunately, we all had to face that I was not the person they wanted me to be.

I told her I didn't wear makeup. She said, "That's a mistake.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

If someone says I love you it would be foolish to say I love you too So you say I knoe tht is trulie wht love is. <3

I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?

Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful

Advertisers loved her, brands were eager to work with her. She was entirely real and that was hard to come by online. Where the whole world looked fake, she wasn't.

Everything Amelia had posted online had been a lie, yes. The relatable, inspirational, authentic girl had been a fraud all along. Josh had been too swept up in his own narrative to realize it had been Mignon's spirit she was mirroring back to him.