Quotes About Authenticity

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

I have a great love of the actual.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.

Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best you that you can be.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we're good enough.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.

If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?