Quotes About Authenticity

Any scene in which a character is shown waking up in bed or getting into bed is deeply suspect, unless there is someone new in bed with her.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

The desire to be one's true self is ever persistent.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Keep on being yourself.

And let the lesson be - to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's - and to mak' that worth bein' Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Don't strive for love, be it.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...