Quotes About Authenticity

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warmth. You'll be cool when you're dead.

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn't fit in was because I didn't want to.

Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter.

you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your stamina. Keep swimming...

She didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.

Don't be a perfectionist. Humans are imperfect. Human work is imperfect. Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.

We are infinitely better than the most perfect-looking bionic sex robots. We are humans. Let's not be ashamed to look like them.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep behind a superficial mask of cheerful sarcasm.

You don't need to exhaust yourself trying to find your own value. You are not an iPhone needing an upgrade. Your value is not a condition of productivity or exercise or body shape or something you lose via inactivity. Value is not a plate that needs to be continually spun. The value is there. It is intrinsic, innate. It is in the "being" not the "doing.

No tienes que entender la vida. Tienes que vivirla. Nada más.