Quotes About Authenticity

And woe betide the person with the 'double abnormality' of a false self and 'a fine intellect' that they find they can use to escape their pain. 'The world may observe academic success of a high degree, and may find it hard to believe in the very real distress of the individual concerned, who feels 'phoney' the more he or she is successful. [as quoted by Winnicott]

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

Remove the crown and the fine clothes, and you're left with a fairly ordinary man.

A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.

Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings.

First word … best word.

I'll get drunk & give no shit, & not be a Messiah. - New York to San Fran

gran parte de nuestra conciencia está llena de lenguaje, como una especie de murmulleo detrás de la oreja, un continuo blablablá que en realidad nos impide respirar hacia lo más hondo y sentir con más sutileza y dulzura los sentimientos que realmente albergamos como personas, los unos por los otros, más que como máquinas parlantes.

Stop all fantasy! live in the physical world moment to moment - Dawn

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread...

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Are you the man that says nothing or the man that acts upon his beliefs?

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

AUTHENTIC, adj. Indubitably true — in somebody's opinion.

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

Words are an unreliable way to measure the heart", she said. "I'm more inclined to trust what I observe rather than what someone tells me.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.