Quotes About Authenticity

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.