Quotes about Authenticity

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

We are never free until we have no need to impress other people.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.