Quotes About Authenticity

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

Stop attending churches and be real Christians.

Anyone who says I have no regrets is either a psychopath or a liar.

How difficult it is to walk through the world with your insides intact.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Live where you are, not only where you think you should be. Otherwise, you will end up living nowhere." I

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

Self-determination theory,' he intones casually, as if the moderator had never spoken, 'states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others. Is there anyone here who feels they can check all three of those boxes?

Since when does how a thing looks matter more than what it is?

Self-determination theory," he intones calmly, as if the moderator had never spoken, "states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others.

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

Love is love is truth is love.