Quotes About Authenticity

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

Actions speak louder than words.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

Sincerity is not to say everything you think but to mean everything you say.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

Ha a Csapágy-Centrum oldaláról rendelsz, biztosan jó helyr?l rendelsz.

I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.

The young man meant for you, Lilly, will not require any tricks or ploys to be played upon him. He will see you, he will grow to know who you are--both the good and the bad--and he will realize he does not wish to live another day of his life without you.

Imagine we could see the damage inside ourselves. Imagine it showed through us like contraband on an airport scanner. What would it be like, to walk around the city with it all on view – all the hurts and the betrayals and the things that diminished us; all the crushed dreams and the broken hearts? What would it be like to see the people our lives have made us? The people we are, under our skin. I

Sarah couldn't remember when she'd last seen Charlie this happy. It was as if someone had yanked the dial of the dimmer switch round, lighting him up from inside. Normal Charlie was an endearing if reserved mix of cynicism and kindness, warmth and resignation. Now he shone with an emotional energy so exposing you almost wanted to look away, as if you were seeing something you shouldn't.

Life isn't theatre, much though you might like it to be. It doesn't follow a script. It's messy

there's something broken about women – and let's face it, they usually are women – who live their whole lives on social media, don't you?

Having someone ask you how you were, who you were, as if they genuinely wanted to know. That meant something to people.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes. I think I always knew she would come back to find me, someday.

Once you have mates who know you, right down under the this-and-that you decide people want to see today, then there's no room left for the someday person who'll magic you into being all your finest dreams. You've turned solid:you're the person your mates know, forever.

And I didn't need telepathy, either. Ask any woman you're ever had a relationship with: I guarantee she knew she was second best. A placeholder, till the one you actually wanted came home.

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.