Quotes About Authenticity

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Today I don't have to fit into anyone else's emotional atmosphere.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

Write the book you want to read

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Dietrich would never do that

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Your looks do not define who you are.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

By staying true to yourself, you keep your energy high and clear, and you provide inspirational role modeling for other healers and helpers. Integrity toward yourself is a gift to the world.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Photography is truth.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.