Quotes About Authenticity

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.