Quotes About Authenticity

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.

You scare them, Ma," Isaac says. Why? Because I made them all sign confidentiality agreements? Because I speak my mind and know exactly what I want? Why should I pretend people are doing me a favor when I'm paying them? I have no use for that sort of nonsense. Once

I want to ask someone the truth, I think truth is what has been missing in my life. Well, it's one of the things that has been missing, along with a sense of purpose and positive self-esteem.

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

Finding the pathway that best expresses our true selves is a process that can continue throughout life and needn't be locked into a particular decade.

my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.

Why is she trying so hard to hide? She's never been a follower.

Sometimes he felt like two people inside the same skin, and he wasn't always entirely sure which of them was real.

Don't be logical. You know I hate that.

Friend' requires an adjective these days, since it otherwise feels empty.

You don't need to do anything to be loved by the right people.

Maybe because his main character never seems to get it right till the end. You know, he's not perfect, just real.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

as frank and open and honest as the eye of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

The problem with Harry was that he didn't just pick one lie and stick with it.

Another writer described the building as being "as frank and open and honest as the eyes of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

I think this is a TRUE story.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go.

Our culture generally views tears and what may lie behind them—sadness, anger, disappointment, fear—as signs of a problem. Something has gone wrong. Somebody needs to figure out who screwed up so we can set this thing right. But tears are actually sweet things. They are signs of authentic feelings. Of