Quotes About Authenticity

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

I reckon we all have to play different parts for different people. Sometimes I think the only time we can really be ourselves is when we're all alone with nobody to disappoint.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

How can this be? How could we have been just sitting there, happily eating our lunch, and then Jess announces that she's gay? Like who does that anyway? And how is it possible that I never even saw this coming? I mean if you best friend has no clue that you're gay, then who does?

Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves, and to our spouses--our spouses in particular, for that matter. It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

Escric perquè m'agrada escriure. Si no em semblés exagerat diria que escric per agradar-me a mi. Si de retop el que escric agrada als altres, millor. Potser és més profund. Potser escric per afirmar-me. Per sentir que sóc... I acabo. He parlat de mi i de coses essencials en la meva vida, amb una certa manca de mesura. I la desmesura sempre m'ha fet molta por

what you love, doesn't matter what it is, or who it is—that's your heart and spirit, that's you. Don't let anybody talk you out of it, don't let anybody get in its way. Otherwise you live with a hole in your heart." Then

Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think.

It's impossible to write about yourself when you're hiding.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you." And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.

There it was, out at last, and if it seems like nothing very much, I can only say that it took a long time to say it, to be able to say it, and none of the journey was easy.

Each homosexual must, of course, come out at his own time and in his own way, but homosexuals, the older as well as the younger, the ones in Brooks Brothers suits as well as those in black turtleneck sweaters have, I think, an obligation to declare themselves whenever they decently can.

Never pretend to understand what you don't understand," Orion used to say, "and never let anybody tell you you should like something. You can educate your taste, but you can't change it. So trust it.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Ne želimo svjedoka za naše slabosti, a ako ih pred nekim krijemo, zašto bismo ga nazivali prijateljem?

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.

do things because you think it's right not because others do.