Quotes About Authenticity

It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.

Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.

she just seemed to have been put together more on purpose than other people.

I will never stop grieving for my long-held wish for enduring love that does not reduce its major players to something less than they are.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.

She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him.

The face beneath the mask has to grow seamlessly into the mask.

She was not ready to go home and start imitating someone she used to be.

I felt at ease with myself, which must have meant that she did not regard me as strange and so I had no reason to imitate someone who was less strange and had been saved from doing the chameleon thing.

Muskarac i zena su uvek Potpuno Iskreni kad god NESTO kazu jedno drugom. Oni nikad ne bi pomislili da kazu jedno drugom SVE.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

And what's the difference, after all, between real and unreal when people react precisely the same way to either?

People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.

Você tem que ser verdadeiro consigo mesmo, mesmo que isso vá contra o que é esperado.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.

One woman put it this way: "...I'm a compassionate person, but I also don't want to be friends with somebody who doesn't full show up as well.

Maybe most of all, Karl is like family because of how I feel when I'm around him: completely and unself-consciously myself.

You're so real. That's why we love you." ... Her friend's response reflected the reciprocity of showing vulnerability. It is a gift not only to the one who has the meltdown but also to the ones who witness it.

a girl who posts a picture of herself on Instagram must show that she doesn't take herself too seriously, either by mugging or with a self-deprecating or humorous caption or, preferably, both.

it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory

Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

There is nothing like Betty Ford sex.

Don't be afraid of looking dumb or saying the wrong thing. Laughing at yourself is the best way to develop a sense of humor (if you don't already have one) and, at the same time, make people feel less threatened by you.