Quotes About Authenticity

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they'll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

I don't want people to fall in love with my smile, my face or my body. I am waiting for somebody to love the mess I can be and fall in love with my emotional scars.

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn't learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. "I loved him. That's what dumb girls do.""You aren't dumb."I try to hold back my smile. "I'm hanging out with you, aren't I?

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.

So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc, " he said, watching her face light up completely.

It is always in the creating your path, not in the fitting in the society.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.