Quotes About Authenticity

Yalan, sözlerde de?il ?eylerdedir.

La menzogna non è nel discorso, è nelle cose.

Non ci può essere amore se non si è se stessi con tutte le proprie forze.

No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.

Solo essendo così spietatamente se stesso come fu fino alla morte, poteva dare qualcosa a tutti gli uomini.

Life is neither good nor bad; it is original.

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

You don't have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don't let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don't find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It's in your head. It's what is holding your spine in place. It can't be hidden by a haircut. It's not about nail polish or not. It's running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.

If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.

Brenda knew it was just a fluke, that statistically speaking I was almost always at least partially full of shit, but the other two passengers were real impressed, like I was all at one with my natural habitat.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

This is our climate. We have grown up in this air, this light, and we grasp it on our skin, where it grasps us. We know this earth, this grass, this polished red stone with the soles of our feet. We will never be ourselves anywhere else. Happier, perhaps, healthier, less burdened, more secure. But we will never be closer to who we are than this.

Ne mogu ja - kaže - dobri ?ovje?e, ozdraviti, jer ja i nisam bolestan, nego sam ovakav, a od sebe se ne može ozdraviti.

When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

Yesterday, I cried. I came home, went straight to my room, sat on the edge of my bed, kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra, and I had myself a good cry.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

Paul spoke of his failures and successes with an openness few of us are prepared to copy.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.