Quotes About Authenticity

When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!

See me when you look at me.

He isn't what he's pretending to be with her. I watch him all the time. I'm going to be there when he stops pretending. I'm going to be her bulletproof vest, her shield, her fallen fucking angel, whether she wants one or not. He's pretending he's almost human. He's no more human than me.

The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It takes a lot of effort, energy and concentration to be incessantly happy and perfectly groomed. You meet somebody like that- ask yourself what they're running from.

Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And what you most need is to feel it, let it burn through you, then get on with life.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.

You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

My trews may be soft, lass, he thoughts, but what's in them isn't.

Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it. When you fuck a man you are giving him A. Motherfucking. Gift. Be certain he deserves it. And bloody hell, don't have one-night stands. Commit to the action. Make it matter. Feel it and ride it all the way through.

I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.

I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!

Don't confuse intensity of emotion with quality of emotion

Beautiful Girl, wake the fuck up, can't eviscerate essential self.

I don't smile. My smiles don't make people relax.

I don't 'boink' anyone. I fuck

Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence.

Sok a fájdalom, de az öröm is. A kettÅ' közötti feszültség adja az élet lényegét. Nem tökéletes a világ, de valóságos. Az illúzió nem helyettesítheti. Inkább élek kemény, de valódi életet, mint a hazugságok édes életét.

Ahhhh! I fucking hate that phrase. I don't make love. I fuck. That's it. Plain and simple. Fuck. Clearly defined. No strings attached. As in rut and grunt and get my rocks off. I'm the caveman. I'm the sexual barbarian.

I had no idea how it knew, but it knew I knew, and I knew it, and there was no point in faking.