Quotes About Authenticity

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool--and I'm not any of those--to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

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.

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

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Samo izvolite, poslužite se mojom dobrotom, trošite moju iskrenost, hranite svoj ego mojom ljubavlju, gužvajte moje emocije kao staru hartiju, uzalud vam trud. Ne?ete postati bolji, ne?ete postati ja, jer treba vam i duša. A nju mi ne možete uzeti, i sve dok je imam, ostat ?u ?ovjek.

Mogao sam da mu kažem: ne ti?e te se, ostavi me na miru, ne ulazi u moje skrivene prostore, muka mi je od ljudi koji daju savjete. I to bi bilo najiskrenije.

Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another.

Bože, kakve gluposti ?ovjek govori ponekad, nešto namjerno, nešto nesvjesno, osje?aju?i da mu trenutak prisnosti dopušta da ne bude oprezan prema sebi. Ali taj osje?aj vara, trenutak prisnosti je želja, drugi ga ne prihvata.

Tako je bolje,bez slatkih rije?i,bez praznog smješka,bez varanja. Sve je lijepo dok ništa ne tražimo,a prijatelje je opasno iskušavati. ?ovjek je vjeran samo sebi.

Having a name online means no more than it being written on a paper sheet.

I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you got?

What I mean is how public people almost eagerly dehumanize themselves. They allow the markings of region, family, class, individual character, and, generally, personhood that they once possessed to be leached away. At the same time, they construct a new public self that often does terrible damage to what remains of the genuine person.

Little parts of my heart break off then, for Finn, for Ruby, for Charlie, for me, for all the ways we've let ourselves become who people think we should be instead of who we really are.

Why would I hate you?" "Because I was being, as Oscar made a point of telling me later, the most unlikable version of myself

That's what friends do–they remind you of who you are underneath all the stuff people believe about you, all the stuff you believe about yourself.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.