Quotes About Authenticity

You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it's extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

I think if you're an interesting person, you don't have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

I'm very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities - I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks - but I'm happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

Tink is the voice of the youth. I'm not one of those artists who talks about unrealistic things or fairy tales. I'm not talking about expensive things and cars. I'm actually talking about what's going on in my life and every teenager's life, too.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.