Quotes About Authenticity

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by-the-way?

Nous nous sommes dévoilés.

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

For one is free from it only when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of ones own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.

our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.

I'm the one who has no small feelings

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

I don't want this poem to be beautiful. I do.

I have to cover up a lot of parts of me. Everyone does.

I don't like other people's fake sentimentality; I don't like their politics, or their religion. It smothers me.

I have no interest in being myself, I just am.

I want to sing in a voice you don't own, that you've never heard and judged.

A bruxa passa a vir à festa de aniversário junto com as fadas, e nós paramos de negar as nossas partes que, de outra maneira, nos traem continuamente. A nossa tarefa não é negá-las, mas apenas ficar de olho nelas.

I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

These stories do not seek to explain the meaning of disability or to inspire or elicit empathy. Rather, they show disabled people simply being in our own words, by our own accounts. Disability Visibility is also one part of a larger arc in my own story as a human being.

Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.

What might be the fruit of fasting stinginess? What would happen if our churches fasted spectatorship? What might occur if our families fasted accumulation? What could change if our offices fasted revisionism? What might erupt if a new generation fasted escapism? Such fasts could trigger a spiritual revolution.

The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity. Truth in its rawest form is what resonates most powerfully.

On this part of my journey, I'm at last quieting the noise of our world—removing all the external distractions and opinions and judgments and tuning in to my own voice. I'm recognizing my own power and owning it. I'm finally trusting myself, believing I already have inside me the answers I most crave. And above all, I'm discovering who I am at my core—and becoming, day by day, more myself.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.