Quotes About Authenticity

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Y creo que usted no tiene muchos amigos. Yo tampoco. No confío en la gente que cree tener muchos amigos. Es señal de que no conocen a los demás.

That's your problem. You try to be like everyone else. Everyone is unique here. They won't like you unless you be your own person.

Death cancels everything but truth… ? William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age

No éramos ni él ni yo los que nos encontrábamos, éramos dos cuerpos, dos mecanismos de funcionamiento, aparentemente acompasado en ocasiones, dos fantasmas con la máscara que cada uno se había fabricado para el otro.

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice but I'm afraid he, too, may be practicing his new personality on me and that maybe he has trained himself with electric shock to his balls or some other place just as tender and soft, so that we are both living a lie.

The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison

Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

If you won't be you...who will?

We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off.

consistent: live what you believe.

Of all the mind games you could play in life, the most important is this one: always tell the truth to others and to yourself.

Living in harmony with truth means you are not harboring secrets or hiding behind old wounds, not betraying yourself or others.

realize the importance of the words of Polonius, "To thine own self be true." For without personal power, life is a frightening, painful experience.

Las siete moradas es muchas cosas: una guía acerca de la vida y la época de santa Teresa de Ávila, esa extraordinaria santa y maestra contemplativa del siglo XVI; una guía para gozar de su maravilloso texto de meditación, El castillo interior; y, por último pero no menos importante, una guía para el alma: una guía hermosa, tierna, radiante, cariñosa, amorosa y auténtica, que nos conduce por el territorio de nuestro espíritu.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.

Un contrato no consiste en decir lo que pretendes, sino en pretender lo que dices. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (Médico, poeta y humorista, 1809-1894)

Creating an identity for ourselves is based upon self-discovery and not upon biological and ethnic inheritance. This first stage of self-discovery is revolution.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Living and getting to know folks' hearts, that's what matters." "He's not only handsome

Love—the real thing—was what she wanted. What is the real thing? the voice in her head asked. It's trusting whoever you are in a relationship with to love you unconditionally even if you're damaged, she answered.

Everyone hides something. There's no such thing as a totally transparent person in this whole world

Accept who you are and be good at what you do.