Quotes About Authenticity

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

In the end nothing matters what matters is how you lived your life. So do what you want and be yourself.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

Love does not loathe or bind, When it's true, pure, and kind.

Do what you love, Go where youre admired, not where youre tolerated. Be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

The wrong person will want PARTS of you but the right person will want ALL of you, the whole package.

If you're doing what you love, and people can see that and relate to it, that's the most important thing.

Fall in love with yourself and the world will be tempted to also fall in love with you.

Real men invest in long term love, not short term lust.

Real love is when you love someone for who they are, accept them the way they are.

The person you're meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged, or given an ultimatum.

You don't need to change yourself in order to be loved by someone the right person will love you for who you are.

Love but don't allow your heart to be used. Listen to others but don't lose your own voice.

Be kind, be loving, be caring, be understanding, but never lose yourself in the process.

They say that it's real if it comes back to you, I say that it's real if it never left!