Quotes About Authenticity

was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. The

When we strive to impress or outdo others, we strengthen the underlying belief that we are not good enough as we are.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)

I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.

they assume that the overly macho demeanor of the Super Thug is a true representation of a real man. The

fake leather looks great until you use it in demanding situations, and then it shows its true colors and lets you down.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.

People will only fight so hard to try and old on to what they have, but they'll dig in and fight forever to protect who they are.

Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

Silver" is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar. It wasn't just how they looked, it was how they were. The name came from a song my mother sang sometimes when she was getting dressed to go out somewhere special. She sang along with Aretha Franklin at the end: "Sail on, silver girl… Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

You say you want my advice. Here's what I have. Tell the truth. Don't try to cushion the blow. If you're bad enough to do it, you're bad enough to tell it.

Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it's being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole.

But who listens to the wisdom of jewelry? Only our bodies know the truth. Bones don't lie.

You don't write a book for a market, a publisher, or an agent; you write it because your heart calls you to write it." — @tayari

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.

No hay nada más peligroso que un actor que no se dedica abiertamente a ser actor. Los tiranos más brillantes y malignos han sido estupendos charlatanes.

El hombre verdadero se aparta de la chusma vociferante que pulula por los mercados que aclama constantemente y luego es la primera en denunciar.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.