Quotes About Authenticity

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Love is who we are without our stories.

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

I am looking for an honest man.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.