Quotes About Authenticity

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

We are free to yield to truth.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.