Quotes About Authenticity

t's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose..

You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don't fit with you at all. That's always the way it worked.

My job was not to exist at all. Though too much alive to play it to perfection, I feel I performed a fairly adept imitation.

She thought about the rifles and the dead animals in the living room, and the vote of no confidence in cats. They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don't fit with you at all. That's always the way it worked.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect." He

Ethan wondered if it was the first time any of his emotions had ever felt free.

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

Whatever you think your shortcomings are…you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

I couldn't bring myself to talk like one of those corny made-for-TV movies where people say exactly what they're feeling, as though there was nothing difficult about that at all.

When something is true, it takes a lot of energy to pretend it's not. It pretty much uses up the life energy a person's got and doesn't leave much energy for anything else. After years of that, you just get so exhausted. Almost everything sounds okay if it comes with a rest.

Everybody's on their best behavior during courting. That's just how the world works. It's how people work. Then, when they figure they've got you for keeps, that's when you find out what you've really gotten yourself into.

I have no idea if how I feel is what other people would call okay. I'm just the way I've always been.

We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

Once you misplace the ability to be yourself without thinking about it, without second-guessing it, you're pretty well cooked.

No such thing as too truthful," I said.

It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so." Billy

Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain.

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain. I think it only matters if the words are right.

He was different. He didn't waste his time with crap like that. He had living to do. He knew who he was and he didn't have anything to prove to anybody. He had no problem saying he made a mistake, or he didn't know. That's a sign of confidence in a person. People think it's the other way around. But it's only people who don't have their acts together who work so hard to make you think they do.

it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

I think the whole problem with this world is that we control our kids too much. What they naturally are just seems too darned inconvenient for us, so we get impatient with it, and we tell them not to be who they are. No good comes of it. Not in my opinion.