Quotes About Authenticity

Shine bright, be yourself.

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.

By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.

You have two voices, one that only you hear, and another that you speak out loud with, so others hear you. Regardless of what you actually say with your mouth, what matters is what your inner voice says, for this is the one you listen to the most.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.

If you like who you are then losing yourself isn't a choice! But if you don't like yourself, get lost.

If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine.

Base your self-esteem on truth.

How you speak is how you are.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

They say clothes don't maketh the man, does wearing none get you anywhere in life?

When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Una relación amorosa es aquella en que el ser querido es libre de ser él mismo. De reír conmigo, pero nunca de mí. A llorar conmigo, pero nunca por mí. Amar la vida, amarse a sí mismo y amar al ser amado. Tal relación se basa en la libertad y nunca puede crecer en un corazón celoso. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA, ESCRITOR

writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.

But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.