Quotes About Authenticity

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Don't live your life to please other people.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.