Quotes About Authenticity

As Aunt Bee has said before, everything can't be all rainbows and unicorn farts

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth.

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.

Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.

you to reveal the parts of yourself you tirelessly work at hiding. It will ask you to find compassion for yourself and receive what it is you are convinced you are not worthy of. Love will always demand more. Surrender to being seen and being loved. Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.

voice, not Conway's. Abby

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow. Her voice held a smile. So am I

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.

NIJO: I'm not a cheerful person, Marlene. I just laugh a lot.

When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

slipped loose from her severe ponytail, her face devoid of makeup. But her cheeks were flushed in a way they'd never been before—except for that too-short month in Spain. The truth settled inside her with a resounding thud. She couldn't be the sort of person who would walk into that

I sat there thinking about how all real music has to be born in the human spirit. Well, these ballads surely had been. There was something childlike and basic about them, an absence of sham or pretense.

love comes from the heart not from the mind. you will love and be loved. don't force things good things take time.one good reason for people to love you is for who you are not who someone else is. your beautiful and wonderful don't change that just because one person dislikes like you for who you are

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Dreams should make you think, 'If I had the guts to do it and I didn't care what anybody thought, this I what I'd really do'.

There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both.