Quotes About Authenticity

Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth.

I see your true colours And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let them show Your true colours

Get your coat and ditch the damn sunglasses, I've told you before, you're not Bono.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

There's never a good time to tell someone that you don't really exist.

Tess, ti amo. Apri gli occhi" "Cosa?" "Apri gli occhi" "No. L'altra cosa" "Ti amo" "Davvero?" "Già" "Come lo sai?" "Non lo so. È così e basta" "Anch'io" "Davvero?" "Davvero" Aprii gli occhi e non guardai giù ma dritto verso Jimmy Freeze

an authentic personal style cannot be achieved without a solid technique at its base.

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.

Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.

Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of 'ideal' poems that one feels ought to be written, but don't because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A 'real' poem is a pleasure to write.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?

A deconstructed text is tantamount to a forgery.

Nothing touches me more than cracks in the armor and the person who reveals them.

But we're left stunted, compromised, by the burden of having to always lie and censor ourselves.

I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else.

Of course I "prefer boys." But I'm not capable of saying this sentence out loud yet. I discovered my orientation very young, at eleven years old. Even then I knew.

À ceux-là, en général, j'explique que la vraisemblance importe plus que la vérité, que la justesse compte davantage que l'exactitude et surtout qu'un lieu, ce n'est pas une topographie mais la manière dont on le raconte, pas une photographie mais une sensation, une impression.

Et puis, il l'a dit, c'est toute sa vie : on ne s'excuse pas de ce qui fait sa vie.

If I shut up, it's just to avoid being confronted by violence. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. I prefer to see it as a kind of necessary self-protection. But I will never change. I will never think: It's bad, or It would be better to be like everyone else, or I will lie to them so that they'll accept me. Never. I stick to who I am. In silence, of course, but it's a proud, stubborn silence.