Quotes About Authenticity

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.