Quotes About Authenticity

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.

What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?

Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

How you gone win, when you ain't right within? Uh-uh come again

How you gonna win when you ain't right within.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are… The common people are always impressed by appearances and results.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.

It is easy to lose ourselves in corporate imperatives, to feel we are beholden to forces that might not be aligned with our personal aspirations and priorities, or with how we wish to give expression to our lives.