Quotes About Authenticity

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

All real living is meeting.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

I like writing about what I saw and not what I was supposed to see.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.