Quotes About Authenticity

A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul. Hats can do the same thing.

Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.

when it comes to the truth, people have a right to know it. Always. No matter how much you think it might hurt, the truth is the only thing that both cuts us free and holds us tight.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

You can buy that lie if you want, but if you're working for a bank, you don't study the counterfeit to know the real thing. You study the real thing to know the counterfeit.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.

every man has a basement. Some lay dark. Unlit. Concealed. Others sprawl like airport runways for all the world to see. The difference is determined by whether he is hiding something or digging it up. Hammer or shovel says much about a man. [Murphy Shepherd']

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies.

You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is." He

The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

How we feel, think, speak and/or act is what matters in life.--

Truth is the complete unconcealment of reality

My voice isn't authentically me without Catherine's help.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough.

Ele tinha o desespero, não a coragem, para ser ele mesmo. Uma vez que você tem isso, você não pode dar errado, porque você não pode cometer nenhum erro quando as pessoas o amam por você ser você mesmo. Mas, para Kurt, não importava que as outras pessoas o amassem; ele simplesmente não se amava o bastante.

to tell an emotional truth rather than an actual one.

The true leader must always be able to disillusion." —NO RUSTY SWORDS