Quotes About Authenticity

We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can be comfortable each and every day of your life.

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.