Quotes About Authenticity

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

All of a sudden, when I take my hair down, I don't look like a flower child anymore. I look like Loretta Lynn. This is not a good look—for Loretta or me.

That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.

Aquarius is less of a "free lover" than she pretends to be. She just likes to fuck her friends every once in a while.

He loves to communicate, so if you let him know it's safe to be honest, he will tell you what he really thinks and feels.

TO WRITE SOMETHING down doesn't make it true. But the history of truth is lashed to the history of writing like a mast to a sail.

But even as the words were coming out of his mouth, he was slightly despising himself for saying them. It was what girls liked to hear though. Every now and again Dex found himself feeling like an actor who'd been performing in the same stage play for far too long. The lines came out automatically, irrespective of whether or not they were true.

Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

I am moved by a person's honest actions and how they treat those around them. These are the qualities I look for in those I wish to have close to me.

If I fall in love with a woman, that's awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that's awesome. As long as you fall in love… It's like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

People who are unhappy and frustrated in their work either have invalid mission and purposes—"I want to make a million dollars before I'm twenty-one"—or they don't have one and are serving someone else's, and some part of them understands this at some deep level.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right They just open their petals and turn to the light