Quotes About Authenticity

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.

Exposing an illusion is not the same as revealing a truth

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head Fell carelessly behind.

Dare to be yourself. Life that you live as best version of yourself is the justice done towards your existence.

Stay authentic to yourself and you will conquer the world.

There is courage in not caring what others think about your uncommon action, when you find that the greatest show in the universe is the universe.

Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.

all of us naked as the day we were born, each of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one's reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

I dont want to be a super model. I want to be a role model.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

Everyone who is honest is interesting.

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.