Quotes About Authenticity

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be the way they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

Altering your behavior or being someone different from who you are is a recipe for disaster. He is attracted to you—the real you—just the way you are, not to some woman who has no life except for him.

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Accettare di non essere come gli altri, e così continuare la propria strada come si sente che sia giusto, esige in realtà una grande rettitudine e molto coraggio.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

I never stop myself from doing something because I'm afraid of what people might think.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow 'within' and disclose our 'true' self. ("Everybody his story")