Quotes About Authenticity

I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

Don't pretend to know me when I don't even know myself.

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

You can't fool people into loving you.

But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

They're not chicks. They're ducks.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

I love being not cool.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.