Quotes About Authenticity

And what is it with these fucking people and teenage virgins anyway? Have they ever actually shagged one? I have, more than once, and none of the encounters would appear on my list of sexual highlights.

He had the emotional honesty of a Labrador puppy and a reluctance to put on masks out of deference to decorum.

There hadn't come a day when she consciously decided, sod it, I'm past caring about clothes and hairstyles and make-up, but the evidence suggested she'd reached that position nonetheless.

the truth doesn't hide, but it sure as fuck ain't easy to find.

Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.

Así que, tanto si eres hombre como mujer, para vencer el miedo a ser tú mismo, es importante saber si estás en armonía con las fuerzas femeninas del mundo natural, ya que es la fuerza curativa para esta clase de miedo.

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

Noch sind wir in der tiefsten Tiefe nicht korrupt genug, um Schein und Sein, Außen und Innen unwillkürlich bei jeder Auffassung getrennt zu halten, so daß wir, wenn sich uns eine Fassade zeigt, wirklich nur eine Fassade und nicht mehr annehmen würden. Die Wahrnehmung des Menschen ist produktiv und ergänzend.

He was not a realist, and I wasn't either, and we both knew that the others in all their triteness were realists, stupid as puppets which touch their collars a thousand times without ever discovering the string they are dangling on.

People say how amazing communications are these days, because you can feel as if you're in the same room as someone in Australia.But you don't really feel that way.You keep telling each other news about your lives,but it feels false.

Sugar, nobody's perfect. And when ladies try to be perfect, their periods stop.

Just because you can fit into something tight doesn't mean that you belong in it.

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

Who I am remains to be seen— and I alone intend to be the one to see it.

I like the candor of dogs. They're always honest about what they're feeling.

It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.

They could not make a deep and powerful connection to the larger world until they were able to connect to themselves. And, in an example of the kind of feedback loops that characterize all living systems, they were not able to connect to themselves until they were in authentic relationship with others.

Authentic religious expression for them was an experience of the soul and made no distinctions of gender. As Lucretia Mott said, "In Christ, there is neither male nor female." Gradually, I have realized the core of what set them apart for me. It is that they lived, more than most of us, from a place of wholeness. They were authentically themselves without amputations or edits.