Quotes About Authenticity

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.