Quotes About Authenticity

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

Truth is beauty

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.