Quotes About Authenticity

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things

I learned something important that night. 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.

THERE'S THE PERSON you think you should be and there's the person you really are. I'm not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again.

And nice is okay when it's among other things, but never when it stands alone.

I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.

you used to be much more… muchier. You've lost your muchness.

I cant' believe Doris's hair is real too.' 'All but the colour. ...

This wash't how people spoke to each other. Where was the pretense that we liked each other, that we were both happy to be there, and we'd meet again?

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.

Ne trebaš baš sve pokušavati sprije?iti. Katkad ti treba biti neugodno. Katkad trebaš biti ranjiv pred ljudima. Katkad je to nužno zato što je tako?er dio puta prema novom dijelu tebe, prema sutrašnjem danu.

Te sam ve?eri nau?ila nešto važno. Ne trebaš baš sve pokušati sprije?iti. Katkad ti treba biti neugodno. Katkad trebaš biti ranjiv pred ljudima. Katkad je to nužno zato sto je tako?er dio puta prema novom dijelu tebe, prema sutrašnjem danu.

She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.

I said at the beginning of this story that this was about a person who finds out who they are. About a person who is unravelled and their core is revealed to all that count. And that all that count are revealed to them. You thought I was talking about Lou Suffern, didn't you? Wrong. I was talking about us all.

Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested.

He's losing himself, he doesn't like what he's becoming. It's not him. Not who he wants to be.

Remember I feel a lump in my throat, just always remember to be you.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul

There's the person you think you should be and there's the person you really are. I'm not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again

while everybody else marches to the beat of their own important drum. I constantly feel hungry, metaphorically and literally.

I don't want to do anything. I don't wish to go anywhere. Most of the time I don't want to even be here, but you're not supposed to say that, are you? You're just supposed to say insightful meaningful things that surprise people so that they can tell other people how brave you are. Brave, but I was never the brave one. Why it should fall upon me to become that now is beyond me.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

I don't need anyone in my life who doesn't wanna be there.

Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

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