Quotes About Authenticity

Blameless, she gives herself permission To be exactly who she is.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Let's get naked and while we're at it work our damnedest.

Language not urged and crammed with love is nothing, while that which is is everything.

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth.

It is easy to know truth, but most difficult to be truth. It is not in knowing truth that life's purpose is accomplished; life's purpose is accomplished in being truth.

The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.

All situations of life are tests to bring out the real and the false.

Every seeker after truth must remember one thing: that the first step in the path of truth is to become true to oneself.

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

Vlad's feet slowed to a stop. "But I'm not goth." Both Snow and October stopped in their tracks and stared at him. "Wow, Vlad!" Snow shouted. "You're so goth you don't even know you're goth.

Out in the radish fields, she did not have to impress, outthink, or outperform anyone.

you feel things real strong, leanne, even if you pretend you don't. you're my girl that way.

Group membership never disappears, but an organism will try to pass as something it's not, if enough of its traits transform. We are nucleate, heterotrophic, vertebral, brainy, bony fish. We are fish.

It takes hard work to say, "This is how I am," in a calm voice, without anxiously addressing how you should be.

I used to admire people who could hang with anything. Now the women I admire the most are women who never pretend to be different than they are. Women like that express their anger. They admit when they're down. They don't beat themselves up over their bad moods. They allow themselves to be grumpy sometimes. They grant themselves the right to be grouchy, or to say nothing, or to decline your offer without a lengthy explanation.

You are weak and raw and broken, and that's okay. That's where real life begins. Throw yourself into that rawness., Dive into a bunch of stories about absorbing and leaning into disappointment and loss and melancholy as a way of moving through it.

Even natural wonders aren't what they used to be, because nothing can be experienced without commentary. In the 1950s, we worried about how TV would affect our culture. Now our entire lives are a terrible talk show that we can't turn off. It often feels like we're struggling to find ourselves and each other in a crowded, noisy room. We are plagued, around the clock, by the shouting and confusion and fake intimacy of the global community, mid-nervous breakdown.

Our culture exerts a constant pressure on us that severs our relationship to ourselves and each other.

I used to be more like that woman, having fun with whatever task was in front of me instead of freaking out about how I looked to other people. I need to figure out how to get back there. My life has turned out great. Sow why am I comparing myself to perfectly styled, enviable, energetic professional in my head?...I keep saying to myself: "This is all wrong You are all wrong."..."You should be a shiny, infallible adult by now. Why are you still such a mess?

Here's the thing: being nice is worthless if you're just going to feel resentful about it in the end.