Quotes About Authenticity

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Truth is within ourselves.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

Once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Simple is the speech of truth.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.