Quotes About Authenticity

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

will. You convey your exact thoughts, which is a reason people trust you. You never say one thing and think another." "Many would call that rudeness.

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

He was never able, really, to see things other than the way they were, he believed, and he took some pride in that.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Staying true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

whatever it is, stay how you are

Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Something has been happening to me, a change that has been a long time coming. I want to be real. Am I the only bad-doing, hand-to-mouth, barely-making-it Black woman there? The struggle I've been going through and the struggle I've been seeing is too hard to lie about and I don't even want to try. I want to help free the ghetto, not run away from it, leaving my people behind. I don't want to style and profile in front of nobody.

As long as we speak only in response to other people's disapproving silence, and as long as our words are but an apology, we ourselves are unable to judge the world fairly. Our life is an enigma to others, but their lives are an enigma to us, and our attempts to communicate with them are futile: we see them always as an audience, and in their eyes we are actors. No mind or character can withstand such false relations. They affect not only our behaviour but also our most intimate feelings.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them

Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring ,so I go back to being me.

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

But when Johnny goes outon Johnny's own Timehe's out there doing the only one thing:he's burning off all the stillborn Johnnysthat hatched in his head in the night.And that John, he won't ever come home,not until he's right.