Quotes About Authenticity

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

No matter how sophisticated the style or elegant the setting, soul is the bottom line.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Expose yourself! Show me your tattooed spine and star-encrusted tongue! Admit your feral snarl, your bloody jaws concede your nature and reveal your dreams! each beast contains its god, all gods are dreams all dreams are true — Lenore Kandel, from "Freak Show and Finale," Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel . (North

Introverts are often caught between the need to create a persona in order to relate to others and the need to stay true to themselves. When they wrestle with these competing aims, they gain access to more of their functional potential.

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?