Quotes About Authenticity

Women are the ones with the cojones," said Paco as he made a bowl of guacamole. "We guys like to think we're the ones, but we're wrong.

These are not pretty things, but they are true things.

I could only be who it seemed I had to be.

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Rise to the occasion of your one and only heart.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

There are no composite characters or events in this book. I occasionally omitted people and events, but only when that omission had no impact on either the veracity or the substance of the story.

I think I cry because it always strikes me as sacred, all those people going by. People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn't simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me. Just like Jesus did.

It's reality. And reality is what we have to accept, like it or not.

Will you take me as I am? Will you? JONI MITCHELL, "California

La vera sfida è vivere.

That you're so bound up about writing tells me that writing is what you're here to do. And when people are here to do that, they almost always tell us something we need to hear. I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart. So write, Elissa Bassist. Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker. Yours,

Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.

We have to be whole people to find whole love, even if we have to make it up for a while.

Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

You don't have to be broken for me. I didn't have to be broken for him, even though parts of me were. I could be every piece of myself and he'd love me still. My appeal did not rely on my weakness or my need. It relied on everything I was and wanted to be.

But an ethical and evolved life also entails telling the truth about oneself and living out that truth.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. The

you gain. Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Hoe wild het is, om alles te accepteren zoals het zich voordoet.

Withholding distorts reality.

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.

She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.