Quotes About Authenticity

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

I wanted to stop caring quite so much what everyone thought about me and instead just be satisfied when I was doing the right thing.

had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist's valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn't care what other people thought of me.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

En zo kom je in de loop van de jaren (...) erachter dat je meestal niet jezelf bent, niet symmetrisch met jezelf, maar dat je het grootste deel van je leven in een aantal vreemde incarnaties bestaat voor welke je alle verantwoordelijkheid van de hand zou wijzen als je kon.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

Thus, Epictetus advises us to form "a certain character and pattern" for ourselves when we are alone. Then, when we associate with other people, we should remain true to who we are.

The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

I generally eschew frivolous and meaningless social encounters. - Arlo Patterson

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose public records to be true.

Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those who are not entirely beautiful.