Quotes About Authenticity

My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.

Authentic play comes from deep down inside us. It's not formed or motivated solely by others. Real play interacts with and involves the outside world, but it fundamentally expresses the needs and desires of the player.

Put her in any situation that was even vaguely new and personal and she was lost; her pale, almost translucent skin and auburn hair seemed to signal everything she was feeling. She may raise her chin in proud disdain and even curl her lip in an emergency, but nobody was likely to be fooled if she glowed the colour of a midsummer sunset.

Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people. Jaffe, Stuart. Southern Bound - A Paranormal-Mystery (Max Porter Mysteries Book 1) (p. 48). Stuart Jaffe. Kindle Edition.

Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained

Their impoverished condition somehow made them very real people. It's hard to be phony when you haven't got anything.

Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

But it's a little like that children's book, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, but in reverse: if you're not loved for who you are, you cease to be real. Definitely for the other person, and maybe for yourself, too.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who

And it dawned on me that one way to find out if someone is trustworthy is to read her a passage from one of your favorite books and see how she reacts.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

We need to accept our anger, fear, or whatever undisclosed feelings we have, no matter how socially unacceptable they seem.

Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others.

Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.

Remember, feelings are neither right nor wrong—they just are. When you can accept your feelings, you'll be able to risk being outwardly honest. If you criticize and judge yourself for your feelings, you'll close down, hide, and relate less honestly to both yourself and others.

I want a world that is trustworthy. I want to lay the best version of my faults at your feet as you do the same for me.

She is just straight all the way up and down, including her nose and mouth and hair.

I always knew I had no small talk, and now I know I've got no big talk either.

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.