Quotes About Authenticity

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

Don't be afraid of who you're not.. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self.

Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.

SOFIA: We're not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Shine bright, be yourself.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.