Quotes About Authenticity

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

How would your life be different if you approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day you dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you.

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves?

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

I don't want to be love the same way an athlete loves is sport. Of course he loves the game, but his indubitable adulation is his will to compete. Love me for who I am don't try and conquer me.