Quotes About Authenticity

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both men and women) is, What is it that we long for? Or perhaps, What are we lacking so that we can turn life in the direction we want? Creativity? Confidence? Authority? Recklessness? Irresponsibility? Or even darkness? Perhaps the lover is the outlaw in ourselves we don't quite have the nerve to claim. (p. 34)

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

You're born naked, the rest is drag.

O meu nome diz o que devo ser, o que devo pensar, o que devo falar. Meu nome é uma gaiola em que estou preso. Mas se, ao acordar, eu tiver me esquecido do meu nome, terei esquecido também de tudo que se espera de mim. Se nada se espera de mim, estou livre para ser aquilo que nunca fui. Começarei a viver minha vida a partir de mim mesmo e não a partir do nome que me deram e pelo qual sou conhecido.

Patativa do Assaré: "É melhor escrever errado a coisa certa do que escrever certo a coisa errada...

I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

A [real] man does not flee from truth

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers — "Here I am!"

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. If not, leave this gathering.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.