Quotes About Authenticity

A superhero isn't something you play at sometimes—it's something you are. Full-time, all the time, every day.

The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It's the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take

NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE INTO YOUR GARDEN. WE HOE OUT THE CROPS AND SEED IN WEEDS—ALL THE WHILE TELLING YOU HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR WEEDS ARE, THAT, IN FACT, THEY'RE NOT WEEDS AT ALL, AND YOU'RE SO LUCKY TO HAVE THEM—UNTIL YOU'RE NO LONGER CERTAIN WHAT A WEED EVEN IS.

My last name is Stone, though." "How foolish do you think I am?" he echoed the exact words she'd said to him about his name only hours ago. "Lisa Rock? That will not do. I can hardly present you to my men, should I decide to, as Lisa Stone. I may as well tell them you are Lisa Mud or Lisa Straw. Why would your people take the name of a stone?

People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It's the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or Die.

Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress?"

Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.

life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.

Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

Remember. It's called a soulmate. Not an egomate. Not a walletmate. Not a lustmate.

Love people for who they are and not for who you want them to be. That's where the disconnection starts.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

If it got out that I didn't have to rush back, I'd be forced to stay longer. The thought of remaining scared me. Like I'd start shedding my new, shiny skin I'd worked so hard to achieve, revealing the scarred and ugly person beneath.

I wanted to cry for the little girls we'd been before the world's glaring spotlight eradicated our childish imaginations.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Miten paljon mies antaisikaan naiselle, jos tämä rakastaisi miestä miehen itsensä vuoksi!

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new.

I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?