Quotes About Authenticity

U?ili vás poh?da? všetkým, ?ím ste, a túži? jedine po tom, aby ste boli mužom. U?ili vás lži.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Real love is painful. It's messy and chaotic and gut-wrenching. If it doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong.

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

Honesty set you free,

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.

the empty-closet theory of the breast: if it's there, it will be stuffed.

The authors present many things that are new, and many things that are true; unfortunately, the things that are true are not new; and the things that are new are not true.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.

Don't cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn't mean to write, leave it.) Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don't even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don't think. Don't get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)

The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing." (p.90)

Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours—your own wild mind.

We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don't wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.

Style requires digesting who we are.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accept us.

do all my original writing by hand. I have greater mobility: I can write on planes, with friends in cafés. Plus it feels more connected with my body; my hand moves with my arm and shoulder, which is connected to my chest and heart. All good writing comes from the body and is a physical experience.

Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you're free.

It's a lot better to sound like Ernest Hemingway than like Aunt Bethune, who thinks Hallmark greeting cards contain the best poetry in America.