Quotes About Authenticity

You see, Dash. I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.

i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.

Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that'll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.

When everybody knows you, it is easy to think that nobody will ever really know you.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

Kids don't give a shit about clipboards.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person. Know, and love.

Terwijl Vics ouders het niet konden laten hem te zien zoals hij vroeger was, en veel vrienden en ook vreemden iemand zagen die hij niet meer wilde zijn, zag Dawn alleen hem. Misschien was het beeld wazig, maar Dawn zag alles heel helder. Zij zag duidelijk en ondubbelzinnig een persoon.

After that, I promised myself I wouldn't get into any more virtual entanglements, as easy as they might seem to be. Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Is saying 'I love you' really what defines a relationship? It's the actions, not the words.

I have never told anyone the truth. I have never come close.

The funny thin is, you say it like it's so unusual that you've only done it once. But I bet a whole lot of people go through their lives without ever telling the truth, not really. And they wake up in the same body and the same life every singe morning.

It's so much easier when we're talking about things that are real.

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

with you I feel real. but then I worry about the me that lies beneath.

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

When I say, Be my lover, I don't mean, Let's have an affair. I don't mean, Sleep with me. I don't mean, Be my secret. I want us to go back to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

Now I know: Love isn't so straightforward. It's never a matter of telling yourself to do it and doing it. It's never a matter of someone else telling you to do it and doing it. It can't exist between two people if they can't also feel it exist outside of them, too. It can involve hurt, but it shouldn't make you hurt all the time. Then it's not love. It's a trap disguised as love. -Rhiannon

The truth doesn't have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.

I'm talking about emotional intimacy, not physical. Acknowledging how you really feel, who you really are. Opening up your soul to another person. There's nothing scarier.

The truth. Really the Truth.