Quotes tagged ‘Authenticity’

(30 total)

“Trauma creates the fundamental belief that we must betray who we are in order to survive.”

“Am I truly leading my life? Have I ever?”

“Some may tell you to pursue views, clicks or followers, but I’m here to tell you there’s no more noble pursuit than that of authenticity. If you want to fight against all the bullshit online, it’s paramount that you understand the importance of being honest, being you, and most crucially, being true…”

— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com

“James Gordon Bennett: Tell me, Mr. Barnum, does it bother you that everything you're selling is fake? P.T. Barnum: Do these smiles seem fake? It doesn't matter where they come from. The joy is real.”

— Jenny Bicks, P.T. Barnum, Hugh Jackman, imdb.com

“Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person?”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“I think you’re looking for a way to live a more genuine, authentic life. In order to do that, you need to learn how to say no without immediately apologizing for yourself.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“Say hello to the girl that I am You're going to have to see through my perspective I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am And I don't want to be so damn protected”

— Britney Spears, open.spotify.com

“Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”

— Donald Glover, newyorker.com

“'You are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”

— Emilie Autumn, amazon.com

“Sometimes, we’re so consumed with how others perceive us that we forget to honor how we feel about them.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Jenna dances for an audience. You dance like there's no one else in the room. Your life's not simple, Fiona, and you can't stop it from showing because you're no fake. You're not lost, you don't need finding. This whole city belongs to the Jennas, but I'm sick of them. I swear, Fiona, you're nothing…”

— John Wells, Paul Abbott, Jimmy Lishman/Steve Wilton, Justin Chatwin,

“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.”

— Whitney Houston, edition.cnn.com

“Authenticity is not the watering down of your message to help someone accept your words. Authenticity, I think, is simply trying to find the kindest way to tell the whole truth.”

— Erin Loechner, amazon.com

“I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.”

— Nick Cave, telegraph.co.uk

“To be yourself is all that you can do.”

— Chris Cornell, open.spotify.com

“The two biggest influences in my life are magazines and addiction treatment. Those are the two main forces I’ve had looping in my brain, that have shown me how the world works.”

— Cat Marnell, washingtonpost.com

“I knew I was going to be annoying. But I was thinking of the narrators I like most in this world, like Cher from ‘Clueless.’ Once I let go of what I thought a book should be, that’s when I found this voice that was grounded in pop music. I love pop music. I love Britney Spears albums.”

— Cat Marnell, washingtonpost.com