Quotes About Authenticity

when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...

you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...

allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...

I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

Other women I can flatter and praise – but to you, I must tell the truth...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...

some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...

being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

I wasn't normal, and no matter how hard I tried, I was never going to be. And though I didn't hear it at the time, a small part of me exclaimed "Good!

You could drink the truth in its purity if you went to the source

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.