Quotes About Authenticity

If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger. Because that's like somebody telling you that all you need in order to lose weight is to be thin, or all you need in order to have a great sex life is to be multiorgasmic: That doesn't help!

if you dress too much in the style of the moment, it makes you look like a nervous person.

whenever a woman says about her suitor, "He's such a nice man," you can be sure she is not in love.)

It took me many years to become an honest person, and I know why: because the truth is often terrifying. Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

I did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't

when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

It doesn't have to be perfect, and you don't have to be Plato.

I'm too old to hide who I am, Frank. And I'm too old to be made to feel ashamed of myself by anyone—

Sex is so often a cheat—a shortcut of intimacy. A way to skip over knowing somebody's heart by knowing, instead, their mere body.

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now

I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat.

don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

of the 1950s. It was on the rooftop of our little bridal boutique that I learned this truth: when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me.

the drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No

Bagavad Gita - drevna indijska knjiga joge - tvrdi da je bolje nesavršeno živeti svoju sudbinu nego savršeno živeti imitaciju ne?ijeg života. Stoga ja sada po?injem da živim svoj život. Naizgled nesavršen i trapav ali tipi?an prikaz mene same.

since when did creativity become a suffering contest?

What are you willing to give up to live the life you are pretending you want?

We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we're so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won't be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth—nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow.

Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

I recently read a fabulous blog by a writer named Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?

But if you're working on your craft every day on your own, with steady discipline and love, then you are already for real as a creator, and you don't need to pay anybody to affirm that for you.