Quotes About Authenticity

Facing our true selves is the first step toward living a life of purpose, connection, and genuine joy.

Lies are very hard to defend, especially when reality is so obvious

Real life can never have a written lie all over it.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

[T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Be — don't try to become

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form