Quotes about Authenticity

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Exactitude is not truth.

When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.