Quotes About Authenticity

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

If love be timid it is not true.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Everyone wants to hear I Love You but what they want more is for it to be true when you say it

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

I was onstage and I was shocked; it hurt so badly. I thought: Why am I doing this? Why do I sing about needing to get better so she'll come back? That's a real problem I have. I don't need to get better - I need to find someone who likes me the way I am, someone who finds Chris desirable.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.