Quotes About Authenticity

We'd have to give everything to the kitchen. But still, we could . . ." I don't have to finish because he knows. We could be aboveground. Out in the woods. We could be ourselves again.

Why don't you just be yourself? … No one can help but admire your spirit." -Katniss and Cinna

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

You can hear now. Your inner ear is formed. I shout "I love you" into the bedroom. Then I feel stupid. Then I don't. This is pretty much the story of my life.

You should always use your own words when telling a girl that you love her.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Oh come on, you talk so much shit I can smell it on your breath.

I want to be me, and yet I'm not sure who I am.

We're all guilty of hiding things—it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

Keeping a secret isn't the same as being a liar.

I've known a lot of people," Realm said. "Not many friends, though. Guess that happens when you're a liar, huh." "We're all liars," James replied. "You're not that special.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

Women don't say what they think, and they don't do what they feel.

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here.

Me amas, real o no Real? Real

I tell him,"Real.""-Katniss Everdeen

Wholeness returns simply by having the courage to re-become who the heck you were put on this earth to be.

Wholeness returns simply by having the courage to re-become who the heck you were put on this earth to be. To fulfill God's purpose for your life you have only the task of becoming your truest self.

Even in the most authentic documentary there is always a fictional person—the person telling the story. I have never created a more fictional character than the researching "I" in my doctorate, a self that begins in pretended ignorance and then slowly arrives at knowledge, not at all in the fitful, chancy way I myself arrived at it, but step by step, proof by proof, according to the rules.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?