Quotes About Authenticity

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

Truth has a way of speaking, of sneaking in beyond fear or dread.

The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Las Vegas is no more sinful than anywhere else. It's just more honest.

Sometimes," Joe said after a bit, "it's just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that's what you're not, anymore.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

It's okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.

Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

You look like a goddess when you come, did you know that?" "I'm not a goddess." "Not a goddess. Not an angel. Not a devil. Are you a ghost? Because you can't be real." "I'm real.

If it's true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but you don't say it because you just want to be nice, isn't that sort of like a lie?

He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.

People think it is. Symmetry is pretty, sure. But real beauty, real true beauty, comes from flaws.

Decirle a la gente lo que quiere oír solo para que se sientan mejor no es mejor que mentir

?simyl?jimai niekada neb?na vienodi. Jeigu esi palaimintas - arba prakeiktas - patirti š? jausm? daugiau negu vien? kart?, kiekvien? syk? b?na kitaip. Myl?dama niekada tuo neabejojau - meil? visada tikra, net jeigu trunka tik trump? akimirk?.

All of this is fiction And all of it is true

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

I've censored my true feelings more and more, replacing them with lies that I know everyone wants to hear. I've felt like I've lost my right to have an opinion, just because I know no one will back me up. But we should all have the courage to speak out about what's bothering us about this school and beyond. Maybe people won't like what you have to say. Perhaps you'll find that you're not alone.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing.

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

Happy entries in my journal do not exist. Or if they do, they end abruptly with scenes and sentences left unfinished because they are too gushy in a way that is disturbing and sick and foreign.

We were perfect in our imperfection.