Quotes About Authenticity

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Ése es el grave problema de esta sociedad: está llena de deseos de consumir y de aparentar, pero hay muy pocas ganas de ser.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

I think that everyone should have at least a part of them that's self-invented; in fact, the world would be much more interesting if we all created our own identities afresh whenever we felt like it. Otherwise you're just walking around regurgitating what's expected, which is like, why bother?

Las chicas deberían ser sólo quienes son, sabes. ¿Es demasiado pedir?

What would be worse is to have children only because it's what you feel is expected. You

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

I love you more than life itself." There was no way she could doubt his words, because he was opening his eyes to her and letting her glimpse his soul.

Love is a strange animal. You can't always tame it and make it behave the way you want it to. For years, I thought I could. I thought I could use love the way I used lipstick and perfume. Just to get what I wanted. But real love isn't that way. Real love bangs you around and makes you do things you never thought you would do.

Just one more thing, Nurse Girl. You keep in mind there's times to shrug off the rules and do what you know is true in your own insides.' 'You mean follow my heart.' 'Heart, gut, feet, whatever. Just don't let your oughta-dos mess up them long years ahead of you.

It was the rare actor who brought authenticity to the screen; one exception was Tom Mix, a former ranch hand from Oklahoma. The "King of the Cowboys," Mix made over 160 films and was a frequent visitor when Wyatt and Josephine were in Los Angeles, sometimes accompanying Wyatt to the racetrack. William S. Hart was another Earp acolyte. Where Tom Mix was a rough-and-ready showman, Hart was classically trained, as comfortable in a Shakespearean tragedy as he was in a Western.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Like your insides are too close to the surface?

She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.

But Carrie had told her friend once, during high school, not to model herself on Julia. "I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.

I want you to understand that there can't be information about you—that is true—that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing, and the Internet is full of cowboys and sad people making stuff up.

deliberate about how they lived, wouldn't tolerate assholes, and always had each other's back. "How can I help?

Sylvie steered away from labels. She wanted to be true to herself with every word she uttered, every action she took, and every belief she held.

I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.

What do you want? Sylvie wouldn't have asked this question before, because she would have been afraid of the answer, but she wanted to be deeply and truly herself and to experience the world in the deepest and truest way.

Sylvie would love differently. She would celebrate whoever her beloved happened to be; she would be curious about his distinctiveness and sink into a love that was unblinkingly honest.

can't bear to pretend happiness." Sylvie

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.