Quotes About Authenticity

Be yourself

Other people's perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves

How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you.

Lisa Scottoline

did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. —HARRY S TRUMAN

A complaint had to be true and specific

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.

As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can't make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don't meet our artificial expectations.

Honestly, it's the most you can ask of men sometimes. They're so wound up, so buried beneath layers of "boys don't cry," and "pussy," and "man up," that they don't even know how to feel about anything. I should know.

Don't make apologies for being yourself.

What did the kids call it these days? Sweaty tryhard? When you bent over backward to get someone to like you?

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

Life's not so simple. People are many things, each of them true.

We broadcast one version of ourselves, cropped and filtered and out there for consumption. But the real person is hidden behind that.

Maybe we're all so confused these days about what's real and what isn't, what's authentic, what's fake, that our instincts for the truth have been dulled.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, For where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke

Real life is what happens between those posts. And you only know the version people show you on Instagram. It's a fiction. And I guarantee every single one of those perfect people you see out there is feeling as lost and insecure as you are.

That's everyone. No one's perfect, and no one needs to be.

Everyone has flaws, even if you can't see them.

She watched. That was her gift. To disappear into the black, sink into the shadows behind and between. That's where you really saw things for what they were, when people revealed their true natures, Everyone was on broadcast these days, thrusting out versions of themselves, cropped and filtered for public consumption. Everyone putting on the show of me. It was when people were alone, unobserved, that the mask came off