Quotes About Authenticity

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

Whatever your talent is, don't be embarrassed by it. For the love of God, embrace it, share it, do what you want with it. It's amazing, so never hide behind it.

Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.

You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.