Quotes About Authenticity

Whatever I write is coming out of me naturally. There's nothing to prove. Everything has been proven already.

I don't want to be one of those guys that people just talk about. I'm not good with people talking about me. I'd rather be the guy that just goes out and proves himself, and there's nothing left to say.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

O God, you have given to mortals a sure method Of telling the gold that is pure from the counterfeit; Why is there no mark engraved upon men's bodies, By which we could know the true ones from the false ones?

Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

Don't claim you are sincere, just be it!

How dare you suppose that I don't know who you are or what you are? That I don't understand what I see? Do you take me for some kind of besotted schoolboy? It is unspeakable ! You could weigh as much as a hippopotamus and shave your head and wear a wig and it wouldn't make a difference to me. I never said you were beautiful. I never thought it. I said that you were you .

Love was central to Victorians' sense of self because through it they learned to know not only their partners but themselves. Love was a template for authentic, albeit restrained, expression of their inner self, but it was also a means to attain spiritual perfection, as was made clear by the consistent association of the romantic discourse with the values and metaphors of religion.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St James's Street in the first Autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope.

Why must you see everything secondhand? Why must this be a play? Why must my conscience be a pre-Raphelite picture?

I do not seek to scrape acquaintance with Lady Celia; I do not want my photograph in the Tatler, I have not come to exhibit myself.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.