Quotes About Authenticity

even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

El diamante interior que era su verdadera personalidad brillaba, luminoso, a la vista de todos.

Las personas suelen ocultarse detrás de sus etiquetas y máscaras profesionales (médico, abogado, senador, etc.), la mayoría de las cuales ni siquiera existían antes de los años veinte o treinta. Hemos de recordar quiénes éramos antes de que nos concedieran nuestros títulos.

Todo es amor... todo es amor. Con el amor llega la comprensión. Con la comprensión llega la paciencia. Y entonces el tiempo se detiene. Y todo es ahora.» Comprendí al instante la autenticidad de estos pensamientos. La realidad es el presente. Morar en el pasado o en el futuro es insano y doloroso. La paciencia detiene el tiempo. El amor de Dios lo es todo.

Sex in its natural place is like the signature at the end of a letter. Written on its own, it is less than nothing. Signatures are easy to sign, good letters far more difficult.

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we're living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.

It was hard for him to insist, because it hurt her, and because he knew it would drive her away. But he couldn't string a woman along anymore. He felt like a rat, but a rat at peace with itself.

You don't have to be perfect. Not for God, not for your community, not for anyone. All you have to be is human. All you have to be is you. So lay down when you need to, and then, eventually, it will be time for you to get up, have something to eat, and try again.

I am extremely gay

But just let your words ring true.

how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?

Faking it is exactly what a lot of introverts learn to do from an early age.

Substitute "Hillbilly" for "Blues" and this regionally inflected nostalgia remains much the same. Bear down on the word "real" in Paramount's advertising copy, and it is possible to see how recorded roots music, with its claims to authenticity, could help counter a sense of social and cultural dislocation, a deep anxiety about the increasing superficiality and transitory nature of a modern America characterized by disconcerting changes.

Dude, I've known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Chi può dirci dove si trova il confine tra la pazzia e la ragione? Dove la mente umana cessa di essere ordinata? Dove comincia e dove finisce la facoltà di sentire e di discernere tra il dolore autentico e quello dovuto solo all'autosuggestione, tra la vera gioia e quella fittizia?

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.