Quotes About Authenticity

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Confidence is usually a bluff – if you're lucky you might have it, but frankly nobody will know the difference.

No disrespect to your people, but we're not going to San Francisco here. I ain't wearing any flowers in my hair, Dean said.

The water around his legs was the only thing that seemed real.

Aber alles, was wir aussprechen, muss wahr sein, weil wir es empfinden. Da haben Sie mein poetisches Geständnis

Ich kann in gut und böse die Welt nicht teilen; nicht in zwei Zweige der Vernunft, nicht in gesund und krank. Wenn ich die Welt teilen wollte, müsst ich die Axt an mich selber legen, mein Inneres spalten, dem angeekelten Publikum die beiden Hälften hinhalten, dass es Grund hat die Nase zu rümpfen: Wo bleibt die Reinlichkeit. Ja, unrein ist was ich vorzuweisen habe. Nicht zum Reinbeißen und Runterschlucken. Zum Weglaufen, Günderrode.

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

Salailemalla salaisuuksiaan käy tarpeettoman suureksi ero sen välillä, mitä on itselleen ja mitä teeskentelee olevansa muille.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Wer sich selbst treu bleiben will, kann nicht immer anderen treu bleiben.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.

If I'm passionate about something, I always know that I'm meant to do it. Excitement about something always means that you're aligned with who you really are!

my favorite chapter in Cheryl Richardson's book The Art of Extreme Self-Care (Hay House, 2009) is the one titled "Let Me Disappoint You.

When you dim your light to please others, the whole world gets darker.

We must also learn to respect our shadow—that part of us we try to hide so others won't know how we "really" are. This includes our negativity, sorrow, jealousy, anger, and grief.

I am who I am. Whether in joy or in pain. I am who I am.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. That goes against everything I sing on my records. I have to be myself.

Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.