Quotes About Authenticity

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Photography is truth.

revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

This is exactly who I was meant to be.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would even go so far as to say that we do not live in a truly human world.

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.

Nothing false will survive. Nothing true will perish.

Think for yourself and figure out what's true. That's it. Ask yourself what's true until you know.

You don't have to trust people not to betray you or break your heart or steal your purse; you just trust them to be who they are. Once you understand fear, get a little distance from it and see what it really is and how it operates in the world, then you can understand everything about people. In an eyes-closed being, everything flows from fear; good and bad, courage and cowardice, love and hate, all flow from the same well.

I want to stop not knowing who and what and where I am. I want to stop being confused and unclear. I want to stop pretending lies are true and that I understand things when I don't. I want to stop playing make-believe and find out what's real.

Authenticity is becoming more important among teens and millennials. They're more jaded as a generation.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Remember who you are. - Kim Clark Dean of Harvard Business School.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

The awakening man leads a purpose-full existence. He has heard the call to a deeper life. Not satisfied with survival alone, his ambitions are rooted in higher considerations- the excavation and actualization of his sacred purpose. He is energized by his purpose, not by the machinations of the unhealthy ego. He is coated in an authenticity of purpose that sees through the veils to what really matters. His purpose is his path.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.