Quotes About Authenticity

But love is so often full of bullshit, isn't it?" "Here's

You're a good girl, Jude, but you don't have to be good all the time.

Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are hard, it's perfect truth.

That's a kind of magic, isn't it? Every bit as much as faeries and spells and winged horses. I'm accepted here, not for what I do, or where I come from, or where I went to school. I'm accepted for who I am. For who, more importantly, I'm finally letting myself become.

Gorgeous is just lucky DNA. You're...vivid, he decided. Compelling. That's the sort of thing that comes from inside spaces, so it's better than gorgeous. If you want my opinion.

Ninguém a levaria a sério, a não ser que ela mesma se levasse a sério.

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be." "I

Some would say too good to be true, but Iona had never believed that. Good should be true.

Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.

A] person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.

Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.

In fact, we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth.

because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.

The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It's the same true story, even when it isn't.

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn't have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd.

Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's Should've Been a Cowboy, and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. Should've Been a Cowboy is not like Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real.

Fake love is a very powerful thing.

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or—at the very least—why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.