Quotes About Authenticity

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!

I'm more interested in life than life-style.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.