Quotes About Authenticity

1)I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. 2)I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

O amor não é uma questão de parecer perfeito aos olhos da outra pessoa. É uma questão de poder mostrar suas imperfeições

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

Try as I might, I couldn't destroy my spirit. And try as I might, I couldn't change who I was. I was left with what to me seemed to be the most difficult option: loving myself just the way I am.

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

when the truth is not as dramatic as the rumour, it gets altered.

It is possible, without knowing it, to live at the margin of your own life.

the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!

There is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

I always tried to write a story in such a manner that I wouldn't mind buying it myself.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say.

We would accept anything in the world, any devil or any hell, than accept ourselves in our particular concreteness. That is the thing of which we are most afraid. You see, that being is not even very sinful, not even superb in its sins - just hellishly banal and of a low order, not interesting at all. We would prefer superb sins than to be ourselves with all the banality which we represent.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.