Quotes About Authenticity

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Clint never could get into the split personality thing, acting and talking one way around family and friends, then turning into someone your own mama wouldn't recognize just to have a conversation with some white folks. He'd never seen the advantage to it. Once Clint had learned that all white people didn't smell like the Downy fabric softener he'd seen in those commercials, he lost the enchantment. He felt no urge to try to impress them.

Learn to accept and embrace your flaws, you may not be perfect, but you are unique.

To be yourself in life is the greatest accomplishment, but to give up on yourself in life is the biggest mistake.

Another [interviewee] told me that because her relationships aren't built on false ideas about exclusivity forever, she feels more cherished by her partners; she said, "There is an investment in what we have rather than what we should have.

Honestly, everyone loves more than one person and people often lie about that. We're just not lying about it'…

Even when you have a talent or a passion for something you still have to learn the skills. Also, no one expects you to be anything other than yourself

The more people advertise their love, the more fake it is. Why show it off to the world, when its meant to be confidential and between only the two of you. It just makes people wonder how true your love really is'

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.... It's like Tiffany's.... Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty...

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

A speaker of truth has no friends

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

Maybe, maybe we can survive together, no matter what they want to do to us out there. They don't know that their world is fake and ours is real.

Oooo, the perfect title for my memoir," she said, grinning. "Right about Almost Everything, by Cricket.

mean, not the crocodile. Definitely not in the reptile-throwing business, me.

But the real book doesn't look anything like that,

my rice always tastes like rice.

If you're not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Much energy goes into looking good and shoring up any holes that may appear in that image. This is where the pain starts, in the tremendous distance between idealistic expectations and actual performance.

fundamental values are not chosen from thin air based on the desires of executives; they are discovered within what already exists in an organization.