Quotes About Authenticity

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Our own life has to be our message.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

Always speak the truth.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

?Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.