Quotes About Authenticity

Each and every one of those people rose at a moment in their lives - one that is very much like this moment in your life, "suffocated" and at that moment they chose to tell the truth about themselves instead of staying "safe" inside the lie.

What you've got left after all the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts.

Of himself Grant said, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.

She'd kept the secret sealed so tightly inside her for so long it could not be extracted without altering who she was, she realized now. The secret was not separate from her. In the telling of it, she'd come undone.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface I don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

That was reality and as is often the case, reality sucks.

Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.

That was reality, and as is often the case with me, reality sucks.

big emotions do not come from big words.

May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Instagram.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I am emotion and bone held together by flesh and reality.

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

If we run from the truth of our existence we become a lie...

Be a vintage typewriter in a world full of laptops.

A man in words and not in deeds, Is like a Garden full of weeds.

I drink wine because I don't like to keep things bottled up.

Wine in, truth out.

Beer is liquid frivolity Wine, scarlet truth

Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait.... "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away.... Everything is a self-portrait.