Quotes About Authenticity

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Men who speak loudly about their "conquests" most assuredly have little to claim.

Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.

I could not abandon the rest of me, even when the rest of me overwhelmed my art.

It wasn't always easy learning to be me . . . Being me, I guess, to be myself alone It was lonely, sometimes, sometimes it was blue

People who worry about what others think of them would be surprised at how little they did.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?" I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgment of himself.

Encuentra a tu propio ser, nunca estés avergonzado por el ser que tú eres. Descúbrelo y comienza el cambio de ese ser.

El hombre, sin saber que su mundo es su conciencia individual exteriorizada, en vano se esfuerza por ajustarse a la opinión de los demás en lugar de ajustarse a la única opinión existente, es decir, su propio juicio de sí mismo.

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgement of himself.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

It was as though they had so saturated themselves with professional behaviourism that they had lost the knack of being natural.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

To begin you must be traced into the landscape, your people and your place found. Until they are you are in the wrong story.

And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it? So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.