Quotes About Authenticity

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

The blues is life itself.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.

I seek the substantial in life.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.

This is life weve been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.