Quotes About Authenticity

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

In Bollywood you are constantly singing someone else's feelings and someone else's vision.

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

Too often people feel pressured to forgive and then end up believing that something's wrong with them if they can't quite get there - that they aren't enlightened enough or strong enough or compassionate enough ... You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them

O terapeuta explicou que, com frequência, diferentes partes do nosso íntimo querem coisas distintas, e se silenciamos as partes que consideramos inaceitáveis, elas encontrarão outras maneiras de se fazerem escutar.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained.

Sharing difficult truths might come with a cost — the need to face them — but there's also a reward: freedom. The truth releases us from shame.

In this room, I'm going to see you, and you'll try to hide, but I'll still see you, and it's going to be okay when I do.

But too often people feel pressured to forgive and then end up believing that something's wrong with them if they can't quite get there—that they aren't enlightened enough or strong enough or compassionate enough. So what I say is this: You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them.

Our marriage is successful because it's built not on an unattainable fantasy of perfection, but out of the realization that love is created, not presented.

If you ever want proof that what people present online is a prettier version of their lives, become a therapist and Google your patients.

The more you welcome your vulnerability," Wendell had said, "the less afraid you'll feel.

more real in his life is allowing him to let others be more real too.

Being the cool girl feels like shit.

anger serves another function—it pushes people away and keeps them from getting close enough to see you.

The people who are watching us--the people who really see us--don't care about the false self, about the show we're putting on.

doorknob disclosures.

But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life. But

John points to his tears. "See?" he says. "My fucking humanity." "It's magnificent," I say.