Quotes About Authenticity

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.

I'm not Jane Eyre for goodness' sake.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.'

Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

Show us your true colors, who you used to be.

It's not weak, you know. To feel things deeply, to want things. To need.

In so far as every individual has his own inborn law of life, it is theoretically possible for every man to follow this law before all others and so to become a personality – that is, to achieve completeness.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life; it is real only when it is known.

about love, a sudden decision not to, to pretend instead to a kind of choice.

for a moment, all bells ring true.

What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?