Quotes About Authenticity

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Plan out your life on paper but live your life by your heart.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The lie is a condition of life.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Life is too short to hide your feelings. Don't be afraid to say what you feel.

Keep those 'true' people in your life, let go of those who are judgmental, jealous, hold grudges and who don't accept you for who you are! Life is too short!