Quotes About Authenticity

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Im sorry for being me. I wont ever do it again.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Both hands... Now use both hands. Oh no, don't close your eyes.

The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you are You, the way you are

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fu..ed-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.

In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to know yourself completely before you can truly fall in love and be loved back by someone else.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

Economized love is never real love

All lovers swear more performance than they are able

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if you have never been hurt, and Dance as if no one is watching

You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.

Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you. If love doesn't shatter you, you will not know love