Quotes About Authenticity

Por primera vez descubrí la dulzura de ser yo mismo, sin estar deformado por el dolor o el miedo.

For all that I tried to be more than what I am, I am not more than what I am. It is necessary to be conscious of what we are. The greatest power of your life is to be able to help, and the greatest blessing man has is to be able to live in peace.

Es dificil que alguien te rompe el corazon. Generalmente eres tu mientras tratas de meterlo a la fuerza en donde sabes bien que no cabe

No podemos seguir pidiendo perdón por vivir.

Qué difícil es hablar así, sabiendo que todo lo que no sea hablar de lo que realmente importa es simplemente ruido. Huecos a rellenar.

Tell the fucking story.

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.

Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...

I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is.

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

But even if I could change my hair, my nose, my chin, I couldn't perform plastic surgery on my soul.

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love...

Maggie felt sorry for her, a woman surrounded by beautiful expensive things, all of them by authentic designers, genuine gold-trims, the best-quality fabrics and woods, rare collector accessories of porcelain and ceramic—nothing artificial except her personality. Maggie

You should never deny who you are to please someone else. If that's the choice, then it's not meant to be.

Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.

Alone with myself and my talent, I chose it in some way I never had before. I chose myself also. The person I was and had been all along, the one who had not belonged to the place where she was born, nor to the places she found along the way, the one always under the mask, here she came out and breathed the air and felt at home. I had always believed that to be this person might destroy me or the world, and so as the world seemed to end, this made the end of the world seem nearly a paradise.

Nothing would be further from the reality.

Few people in our culture have the courage to be themselves. Most people adopt roles, play games, wear masks, or put up facades.