Quotes About Authenticity

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can't please everyone, so don't try.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

My entire life has been a lie.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.