Quotes About Authenticity

Don't be afraid to be weird, don't be afraid to be different, don't worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that's original in you and your work might sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. That probably means you're on the right track, so just keep going. Dare to be foolish.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read a statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Who would you be but who you are?

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

People are anxious to know the real you. Take the risk to let others into your world. You have the skills and knowledge to be an excellent communicator. Don't be afraid to confidently and genuinely engage those around you.

I am who I am; no more, no less.

you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!

Whatever fills the heart eventually will be spoken, because the mouth is the faucet of the heart.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.

No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and then, is not a teleological necessity; it is a circumstantial occurrence" (OH 104-5). Because history is what happened, not what must have happened, there is no room in an authentic historical explanation for teleological causes.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

Truth does not blush.

But I didn't want there to be any silences, out of which raw truths might tumble

He had actually liked me – liked the clear, light, energetic person he saw in me. (I think over time I've become more like that person

Heloise marvelled at how calmly Delia talked about herself, not trailing ragged ends of need or display.

That's splendid. That will do. You got up this morning. You've made everyone understand that. You don't have to be amusing or make people laugh to be a good speaker. The important thing is that you said you hadn't anything to talk about & you did find something to say.

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.