Quotes About Authenticity

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

But if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

No one will know who you're supposed to be," Ben warned. "No one ever does," said Claude.

This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are. But

wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in.

Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real...Made up is the most powerful real there is.

How did you teach your your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

At home, there is no middle way. You're male or you're female. There's no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you're wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you's not, that's not okay.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in,' said Penn. 'Easy is nice, but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Date someone who sleeps instead, someone who thinks slowly and deeply and talks in words that don't need to be memorized from flash cards.

if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

You wouldn't be weird. You would be you in a dress. Smart, sweet, kind, funny you in a dress. It would be okay.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

It may not be elegant but it's true: There is no place for bullshit in a disaster zone.

I'm not big on meeting new people, especially new people I'm never going to see again. There's all kinds of uninteresting, insincere banter, I have to pretend to be a nice person, and because 96 percent of the world's population are dim bulbs, odds are excellent that I'll be stuck in the middle of a Spontaneous Freak Encounter.

Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.