Quotes About Authenticity

how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody love you if you don't know who you is?

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?

You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just playing it. You're not real.

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

if we are to see a new reformation, we will have to break away from these patterns and seek to recover the authentic biblical gospel, learning again to think and act in God's way.

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

Nudge: I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings? p. 12

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me.

You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes

Be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN REALITY…

Don't live a life you don't want to talk about.

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I told the truth and shamed the devil.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying this story is going to be all about touchdowns and cheerleaders

He always told me that at some point in your life you get tired of bullshit. You just want the truth. You just want what's real. Decide what matters in life, he said, and focus on that. The rest is bullshit. I

Very often, unfortunately, people may believe something, but they go along with a group of people because they don't have the courage to stand alone or stand up for themselves.

Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.