Quotes About Authenticity

Truly great leaders don't have to chase love. It finds them.

No one would recognize us," I answered. "We're hardly a proper prince and princess anymore." He laughed mid-kiss and leaned back to look at me. "You were never a proper princess." His hands cradled my face, and his smile faded. "But you're everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

I want to kiss you, Kazi," he finally said, his voice a whisper. "And I want you to kiss me back. But this time I don't want it to be because we're only making the best of it. And I don't want a kiss that's for show or has any conditions. I want you to kiss me just because you want to. Because you deeply want to. No one's watching now. You can walk away, and I won't say a thing.

grabbed my dagger and prayed for Adeline's forgiveness as I altered the dress she had lent me, and Vilah's forgiveness too as I pried free a long piece of chain from her chain-mail belt. I would attend the party just as he had asked, but I would attend as the person I was—not the one he wanted me to be.

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Just so we know we have the story straight you too are posing as husband and wife? No, we're not posing.

Los líderes verdaderamente grandes no tienen que perseguir el amor. El amor los encuentra.

The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.

Mikhal - "...most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.-

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." (on Lillian Hellman)