Quotes About Authenticity

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.

I can make up my homework, but I can't make up my life.

Kindness connects to who you are, niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it a form of craving. This is what we look like when we are completely open to each other. This is where we go when we no longer want to hide.

I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don't have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

striking—a guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this

Are you going to be someone who takes charge of her feelings and her actions, even if the outcome might hurt, or someone who lets herself be unhappy simply because she won't ask for what she wants?

A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms.

So I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Try to capture what it's like to have never squeezed yourself into the shape of someone else's expectations.

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E quero que minha vida seja real.

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say.

Coming out is a lifelong process, Ms. MacTraugh continued. Each time we meet someone new or move to a different setting, we're challenged to reveal who we are. It's not always easy. But no matter how difficult, it's something I've never regretted. So few things in life truly matter. Chief among them are being true to yourself, and being honest with others... As I said, only you can determine what's the right decision.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it.

Lo que tú sientes es absolutamente lo correcto para ti. Siempre recuerda eso.