Quotes About Authenticity

it is what you are striving for which is important, not how you appear.

Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don't need to pretend to be infallible.

Love without freewill is semantics holding no intrinsic value.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

don't know why this little cheese conquered so many," he said softly. "But if you asked me the secret, I'd say it was because we made it in our home, the old way, the way it had been made for hundreds of years. Perhaps in the United States you don't know what it's like to have old flavors, flavors from the past, from centuries before. But we live with them every day here.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.

Our greatest joy and our greatest spiritual responsibility is to become who we really are, which means, to fully express our spiritual archetype—our spiritual pattern, our spiritual identity. Esoteric psychologists (who are students and practitioners of the science of the soul) might well adopt one essential mantram which would be of supreme value to all their students and clients: Be Who You Are.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

For a man with no cows you talk a lot of bullshit, Ryan.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

Everyone has three hearts - one they show to strangers, one they show to the people they love, and the last one that isn't shown to anyone...the one that's normally most damaged,

Sometimes when a man feels bad about himself, he doesn't want to be with a woman who looks at him with nothing but love. Instead he wants to lie on top of a woman who knows how nasty and shallow and faithless he can be … a woman who doesn't put him on a pedestal or expect him to be a knight in shining armour … a woman who's happy with the worst he can be.

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." – Dr. Carl Jung

And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this... This is always true.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

Be, who you be.

And it's not like I've never jacked off. I'm fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn't is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one's that stupid.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can't it just be something that happens?

I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was.