Quotes About Authenticity

Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of collective conformity.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.

Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is 'normal'. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

It is better to live one day on the planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.

I always feel that art springs more from dirt than from fine intentions: given the choice, I put my trust in dirt.

People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

Llega a ser lo que eres».

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.

Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

No necesito una novia. ¡Necesito un "te quiero" dicho con toda el alma! "Te quiero con tu tristeza y tu angustia; para sufrir contigo, y no para llevarte a ningún falso reino de la alegría.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Verus Quid Factum

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

Observed by others, he was afraid they might discover his inner lack of substance, detect his discomfort behind his smile or the fear that had gradually become his natural state.