Quotes About Authenticity

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

The future of marketing is not about technology

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

There is no pretending, " Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

Funny how the love be fake...but I ain't stressin'. Thankful for the love that's genuine...appreciate the blessin'.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me, ' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They both shine when it's their time.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.