Quotes About Authenticity

He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, ostensibly to avoid hurting her breasts but actually to keep her from having to touch or feel too much of him. While

Para que Jesucristo sea el Señor de tu vida, debes invitarlo a participar de toda tu vida, no solo que venga de visita el domingo por la mañana en la iglesia.

Be real. Tell the truth. God can handle it.

Any man who has to wear another man's name on the back of his shirt may need to ask himself how he views his own manhood.

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

They're pushing the envelope in terms of authenticity," the Camp Chase Gazette editor, Bill Holschuh, told me when I phoned for his opinion. "About the only thing left is live ammunition and Civil War diseases. I hope it doesn't come to that.

Your work - in even the smallest things - it is a mirror of you.

O amor é aquele estado em que somos nós próprios com mais satisfação. O amor consiste em deixar aos amados espaço para que sejam eles próprios ao mesmo tempo que se lhes dá a segurança no seio da qual esse eu possa florescer.

The truth of authenticity is different from the truth of honesty. To be authentic is to live as one wishes others to live; to be honest is to admit that this is impossible.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of having an audience to perform for, whereas the baker merely said what he thought.

the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you

Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or another. Take a position, have a point of view and fucking live or die with the consequences or don't write.

Your life is your art.

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.

Being alone feels more honest.

Kindness is not the same as niceness or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.

It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.

No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.