Quotes About Authenticity

We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

I was born in Hell. But I am no demon. I am beige and colorful. I was quiet in this room. But I am learning to be loud. Can you hear me? I will make my mark, wherever i am. It is my space. I'll make it mine. I choose. I choose.If I voice my truth, no one loses.

My name is Lake Suck and this is my manifesto. I swear to be myself. To think for myself. I will not be led by social conventions. I will make my own way through the world. I will live on my own terms without conforming to society's expectations of who they think I should be, I will be the visible minority. By being myself, I will help to save the world. I swear to always look, listen, learn, think, ask, act, and speak for myself.

Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Quello che faccio io non si può quasi più chiamare viaggiare, non si scopre più niente, si digita, controlla, smentisce e conferma, immagini e idee vengono confrontate con la "realtà", ciò che in ultima istanza vado a fare è vedere se il Giappone esiste davvero, come se uno spettatore al cinema potesse entrare nello schermo e sedersi a tavola con i protagonisti.

the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.

But the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them. So in the end I'd probably just frustrate us both." She

Don't ever smile if you don't want to," she said, and Hannah, half-blinded by the spotlight of Lydia's whole attention, nodded. "Remember that.

she did not know how to be anything else.

Don't ever smile if you don't want to,' she said.

So concerned about wearing the right things, saying the right things, being friends with the right people.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you that I would never use curse words for shock value alone or to prop up a needy joke. We live in a world in which one Real Housewife of New Jersey seriously admonished another to "show some fuckin' class!" Enough said.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

D?? dünyayla münasebetlerim bir fahi?eninkine benziyordu. Hissetmeden veriyordum kendimi. Ya?amadan veriyordum.

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Serás amado el día en que puedas mostrar tu debilidad sin que el otro se sirva de esta para afirmar su fuerza

Si faccia una vita interiore, di studio, di affetti, che non siano soltanto di "arrivare", ma di "essere" - e vedrà che la vita avrà un significato.