Quotes About Authenticity

Women's lib does not mean imitating men's worst qualities just so we can lower ourselves and be equal to them.

treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

you have to meet the outer world with your inner world to keep your soul anchored. If not, existence will crush you.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]

This state usually cannot last and I believe the reason is that it actually stops our genuine growth. The underlying purpose of your spiritual path is that you discover who you really are, you discover your real self.

I write the truth because I love it and because there is no living creature whose anger I fear or whose praise I court." ~ Nellie Bly, The Evening World, 1895

Why should you try to never have laughter again? Did you die? No, you are alive. So be alive! Laugh if you want to, cry if you must, let yourself feel.

Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

Are you living the life God has designed for you, or are you living someone else's?

There are so many times when many of us have found ourselves living a tremendous lie when we could be living a tremendous life.

It was horrible how the hardest things could be the truth.

I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.

I don't know what to say,' she said after a pause. 'I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.' It was maybe the most honest thing anyone had ever said to me.

Pete, it doesn't matter how you move as long as you are being you.

If you want to be cool, just be you.

I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

I have found that in this business, one of the most important things is sincerity. If you can fake that, you can do just about anything.

And what would you have me say? (Lorelei) That you love me, too, would be nice. Especially given the fact that I look like a complete ass kneeling here in front of you while two hundred men watch. (Jack)