Quotes About Authenticity

Jane Addams, writing about her Twenty Years at Hull House, said, "People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things—simply told.

if we can allow ourselves to be gentle with ourselves no matter what our feelings may be, we have the chance of discovering the very deep roots of who we are.

There is a close relationship between truth and trust.

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was… and trying to share it—not right away—only after I had worked hard at trying to understand it.

Love doesn't mean a state of perfect caring. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now—and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

I've learned what is most worth knowing through living each day as it is given to me. It cannot be 'taught' but it can be 'caught' from those who live their lives right along with us.

All I can do is be myself. I've had the grace to be able to do that. I walk into the studio and I think, 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

I'm not into business at all.

ma pis in piscina prietenilor mei- modul meu de a le mai dilua pretentiile

Crying means you have succeeded to open up beyond your mental."

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Folks want to hear the real stuff - how those boys felt during their training, the girls they had, what they let out when they were drunk, how they felt on the last day…. The human stuff!

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she didn't want to listen to.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.

Give me the raw materials; the black holes, The cold floors and confusion of needles-as-thoughts That make me feel myself, Over any stupefying potions That would turn me into someone else.