Quotes About Authenticity

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "authenticity" would be what you made of it, a hall of mirrors. Put on the work shirt, young man. No big deal. As you get older, it won't concern you. It's just the lay of the land. In your youth, however, you are easy prey for the many tricks of the mind. At this moment, I know my mid is not at its most centered. I can tell because I'm afraid, and that's not my style; I don't need to be, but I am.

I never wrote completely in that style again. Once the record was released, I heard all the Dylan comparisons, so I steered away from it. But the lyrics and spirit of "Greetings" came from an unselfconscious place. Your early songs emerge from the moment when you're writing with no sure prospect of ever being heard. Up until then, it's been just you and your music. That only happens once.

You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright.

people don't choose what you do; they choose who you are. In

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers.

Our preaching should reflect the uniqueness of our personalities, but our lives should

People who require from others to take them «as they are» usually don't seek to take the others as they are.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Every persons true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just BE beautiful, and life will defend you.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.

He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.