Quotes About Authenticity

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have, can be

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright." - Laurell K. Hamilton

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Bad wiring, maybe, but there comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days.

When you live in a way that's too different from everyone else, you get grief about it. Is it fair? No, but it's still what happens.

Allora perché sei qui?» chiese Micah. «Sono stanco di scappare da me stesso.» Non mi parve una risposta, benché Richard sembrasse pensarla diversamente. Comunque sentii Micah annuire dietro di me. «Smettila di scappare», disse il mio Nimir-Raj. «Non sono sicuro di sapere come fare.»

If something makes you happy you should just enjoy it and embrace it, but I've got a whole list of things that make me happy and I fought like hell not to enjoy them, not to want them, not to do them, because they didn't match who I thought I was, or who I thought I should be.

Merry didn't make you a whining bitch, Talan; you were always that.

I won't do you the injustice of asking you to take my word. Words are cheap.

many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." On the other hand, any true enjoyment serves to make us feel more deeply connected with everything else. Enjoying good food, music, sex, and books, enjoying pleasant physical surroundings and beautiful things, traveling to interesting places—all these enrich and enliven us. In the West, spirituality has been long

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I cry to let everything out

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am." She nods her head slowly. "What do you think you'd look like?" "Smaller, for a start.

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

I didn't fit. I was a different size, a different shape. I kept trying to squeeze into a body, a skin suit, that was too small. It rubbed me the wrong way. I blistered. I callused. I scarred over and it kept hurting. I would never fit. But, really, I didn't want to fit. That's why it was hard.

You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. It's the saddest thing I know.

Bologna girl, that's me.